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Re: some unusual errors


Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> I get a lot of warnings like this:
> 
> strtod.c:1239: warning: subscript has type `char'
> 
>   This line of code is actually:
> 
>         for(s = s00; isspace(*s); s++)
> 
>   which confuses me. What, if not "char" should isspace() take???
> 
int. In the bad old days (pre-ANSI) ints and chars swapped positions
more often than Clinton does, apparently. Try this (UNTESTED!)

for(s = s00; isspace((int)*s); s++)

You could have found this out a lot faster from any good 'C' book, esp
K&R. 

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