I am using the RTX mailbox and a lot of it's usage uses casting of the mailbox message to other types - a really quick and clever way to use it(thanks Keil :). When I cast a void * vPointer to a unigned int - like (uint32_t)vPointer - the compiler is happy - but when I cast to a signed char - like (int8_t)vPointer the compiler complains and says:
Source_App\TerminalDrv.c(56): warning: #767-D: conversion from pointer to smaller integer
Now it all works fine ... but what do I do to stop it complaining?
uint32_t TerminalControllerGetChar(int8_t *pcRxedChar ) { void * pvmbxTerminalRx; uint32_t ulNoRxMessage,ulI; ulNoRxMessage = SIZEOF_OS_MBX_RXTERMINAL - os_mbx_check(mbxHandleTerminalRx); if(ulNoRxMessage == 0) return 0 ; else { for(ulI = 0;ulI < ulNoRxMessage ; ulI++) { if(os_mbx_wait(mbxHandleTerminalRx,(void **)&pvmbxTerminalRx,0x0000) == OS_R_OK) { *pcRxedChar = (int8_t)pvmbxTerminalRx; pcRxedChar++; } else { break; } } } return ulNoRxMessage; }
Except that you sometimes stores an integer in the pointer itself. What happens if you typecast as unsigned first?