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surendar@wpi.edu (Surendar C.) writes:

>Thanks to all who helped me clarify that char const * == const char *.
>But I still don't get why the warning is given for one line and not the other.
>Is the increment operator ++ any different from += 1;. I compiled this
>under gcc 2.1 (-ansi -pedantic)

>Thanks for any help
>surendar

>int length(const char *const str)
>{
>	int count = 0;

>	while(*str)
>	{
>		str += 1; /* Get a warning here */
>		str++;    /* Get no warning here */
>		count++;
>	}

>	return(count);
>}
Well, either it is a compiler bug, or GNU simply does only warn about
the first such violation. If you remove the first line, does the
second still not trigger the warning?