Kenkahn, Starting with 3.4 these are the rules for C++ and C: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html I do not know if the deprecation in C was removed in 4.0 corey On 9/13/05, kenkahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <kenkahn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> char *buffer[1024]; > >> *((uint32_t)buffer) = 0x1234; > > > >I don't believe that has ever been valid. > > *SIGH* I meant to write > > char buffer[1024]; > *((uint32_t)buffer) = 0x1234; > > Is that better (and allowed)? >