Wart in string constant handling, gcc 2.95.2

[Alexandre Oliva]

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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