Altera Nios2 troubles

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:38:18PM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> Cristiano Ghirardi said the following on 07/12/2006 07:24 AM:
> >Hi all,
> >I have had some troubles  compiling  buildroot for Altera Nios2 
> >architecture. First of all I got this error:
> >
> ><<
> >   ../buildroot/toolchain_build
> >_nios2/binutils-2.15/gas/config/tc-nios2.c: In function 'md_apply_fix3':
> >    
> >../buildroot/toolchain_build_nios2/binutils-2.15/gas/config/tc-nios2.c:1664: 
> >error: invalid lvalue in assignment
> >>>
> this might be due to some casting you are doing on left hand side
> 
> like
> 
> (const gchar*)a = b;
> 
> gcc 4.x barfed at it and it worked with older gcc versions.
> 
> you can change that to 
> a=b;

The correct form of the cast is:

*(const gchar **)&a = b;

or:

a = (void *)b;

Rich