cannot make assignment of this type?

Question

This is an error I received while working with the C compiler Miracle C

Answer 1

usually means that you are trying to assign a string value to an integer.
char *str;
int val;

val = str; <- This will produce the error you got.
str = val; <- This also will produce the error.

struct
{
int dummy;
} test;
int tester;

tester = test; <- More obscure, still an error.
test = tester; <- Still an error.

Answer 2

Some types of assignment are totally incompatible.

You can assign a short integer value to a longer integer with no sweat. But if you tried to assign a long string to a short integer, you might get that class of error. Or if you tried to assign a data structure or an entire array to a simple scalar variable, that would do it, too.

Answer 3

do you know what data types are. do you know what an assignment statement is. what were you trying to do?