Variable is declared wrong type in emitted code

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In the example project below, the objective is to cause the terminal to emit a beep sound five times. In testing this project, the terminalBell variable is assigned a character value of decimal 7, the ASCII bell character. The compiler issues a warning about not casting an int value but we're not using a int value here. Except that we actually are.

Compile... Succeeded.single.c: In function 'main':
single.c:16:5: warning: passing argument 1 of 'print' makes pointer from integer without a cast [enabled by default]
/opt/parallax/simple-libraries/Learn/Simple Libraries/TextDevices/libsimpletext/simpletext.h:309:5: note: expected 'const char *' but argument is of type 'int'

The code emitted from this project creates the terminalBell variable as an integer, even though the intent was for it to represent a character.

// ------ Libraries and Definitions ------
#include "simpletools.h"

// ------ Global Variables and Objects ------
int terminalBell;



// ------ Main Program ------
int main() {

  terminalBell = (7);
  for (int __n = 0; __n < 5; __n++) {
    print("Hello");
    print("\r");
    print(terminalBell);
    print("\r");
    pause(1000);
  }
}

If the first block is disabled and the second block is enabled, the project is now explicitly declaring the terminalBell variable as a character array and the ASCII bell character is being explicitly converted to a character.

// ------ Libraries and Definitions ------
#include "simpletools.h"

// ------ Global Variables and Objects ------
char  terminalBell[64];



// ------ Main Program ------
int main() {

  sprint(terminalBell, "%s%d", " ", 7);
  for (int __n = 0; __n < 5; __n++) {
    print("Hello");
    print("\r");
    print(terminalBell);
    print("\r");
    pause(1000);
  }
}

It seems that the variable declaration should be based on how it is used but that is not happening here.

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