Compiler/CODECOMPOSER: argument of type "unsigned long *" is incompatible with parameter of type "uint32_t*"

Dave Hohl said:

Why does the compiler generate a warning when the types are equivalent?

Those types aren't strictly equivalent.  The type uint32_t is unsigned int, not unsigned long.  They are equivalent, in effect, because int and long are the same size.  For what it is worth, recent versions of GCC also produce a warning diagnostic in this case.

Dave Hohl said:

And is there any way to fix this, short of disabling the warning message (which may result in me missing valid parameter type mismatches)?

An explicit cast to uint32_t will silence the diagnostic.  In this case, I recommend writing some macros that wrap the calls to the TivaWare functions.  Here is a simple example of what I mean.

#include <stdint.h>

void expects_ptr_uint32_t(uint32_t *ptr);
#define WRAP_EXPECTS(arg) expects_ptr_uint32_t((uint32_t *)(arg))

extern unsigned long ul;

void test()
{
   expects_ptr_uint32_t(&ul);  // diagnostic
   WRAP_EXPECTS(&ul);          // no diagnostic
}

Thanks and regards,

-George