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Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:19:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA 3/3] c++/13356: Update documentation
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To: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
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> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:51:06 -0700
> From: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
> CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> On 08/16/2012 01:44 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:15:53 -0700
> >> From: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
> >>
> >> +The second example fails because the integer constant @samp{0x1234} is not
> >> +type-compatible with the pointer parameter type.
> >
> > Why not? if the current language is C, I see no incompatibilities
> > here.  What am I missing?
> 
> That conversion is forbidden by C++. Perhaps I should have used a method 
> call instead to make that more obvious?

Yes, that would be good.  And/or explicitly tell that C++ forbids
that.

Thanks.