Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 09:12:00 -0600 (CST)
From: Andrew Deren <aderen AT eecs DOT uic DOT edu>
To: djgpp <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: allegro 2.2 's textout function
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I get the same thing. I suppose that staring from allegro 2.2b the
definition of textout changed from char * to unsigned char * to accomodate
more than 128 characters in a font. I am not sure though.

 On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Schuster wrote:

> Hi!
> I'm writting on a c++ program with Allegro. I switched to alleg22 beta
> and now get a lot of warnings, cause the textout-function claims that
> the
> char*  argument should be "unsigned char* ". Why this change?
> Is there any way to get rid of it or change it to the old way?
> 
> Michi
>