From:	Chris Mears <cmears AT bigpond DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: C++, fonts and Allegro
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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 21:46:24 GMT, that hoopy frood
dontmailme AT iname DOT com (Steamer) wrote:

>Al Amzeen (Alexandr Amzin) wrote:
>
>>I got a problem. Not very big, but annoyin'.
>>
>>I cannot compile Allegro ex12.c as C++ source (it contains simple code for
>>changing font from grabber datafile).
>[snip]
>>I'm using Allegro 3.11 (I know that it is old, but it seems to me that there
>>is another bug, because ex12 compiles as C code perfectly).
>
>C++ doesn't allow implicit conversion from void*, but C does.
>
>IMHO it's bad practice to write C that won't compile as C++,
>but it's certainly possible.

What?  Pick a language, and stick with it.  C is *not* C++.


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