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Re: Wart in string constant handling, gcc 2.95.2
- To: Andrew P Moise <moise+ at andrew dot cmu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Wart in string constant handling, gcc 2.95.2
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 19 Jul 2000 18:46:58 -0300
- Cc: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <0tRDQ8q00Ui_09=ko0@andrew.cmu.edu>
On Jul 18, 2000, Andrew P Moise <moise+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> On my system (detailed info to follow), this compiles as c++ code:
> strcpy("test", "test");
> but this does not:
> strcpy(foo() ? "test" : "test", "test")
> This seems surprising enough to merit a bug report...
Nope. Standard C++ permits a deprecated implicit conversion from a
string literal, of type `const char[]', to `char*', but, when the
string literals are operands of ?:, there's no reason to convert them
to `char*', so they get converted to `const char*'.
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