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Basicly:
I keep getting a type casting error that I need to turn off. Is there an
option for the gcc or g++ compiler that stops it from checking type?


In detail:
I have an embeded system I am working on. I want to compile the code on
my Linux system so I can debug it faster than re-programming the chip. I
am using gcc/g++, KDE desktop and xwpe for an IDE. In my code I have a
struct, I make a pointer to the struct and referance it using the
pointer. The gcc compiler will not compile it because it stops on the
line where I ref. the pointer, because it is not type cast. The embeded
compiler dies if I add the type cast, the makers are tring to find out
why. If I compile it in dos using Borland C++ I can have it either type
cast or not type cast.

//---------
//example
struct test
{
	char first;
	char second;
	char third;
};


struct test far MyTest;
void SomeFunction(char far *StructPointer);

void main(void)
{
	// This line compiles with gcc, not with the embeded compiler
	// This would be the better way to do it, but the embeded
	// compiler could take months to be fixed and I don't want to
	// work in windoze, there should be a way to let gcc ignore the
	// type cast?!? Right?
	SomeFunction((char *)&MyTest);

	// This line compiles with the embeded compiler, not with gcc
	// error for this is
	// parsing MyTest * as argument 1 of SomeFunction(char *);
	// Then it stops.
	SomeFunction(&MyTest);
}


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