[Bug c/33076] Warning when passing a pointer to a const array to a function that expects a pointer to a non-cast one

[joseph at codesourcery dot com]

------- Comment #5 from joseph at codesourcery dot com  2007-09-19 19:54 -------
Subject: Re:  Warning when passing a pointer to a const array
 to a function that expects a pointer to a non-cast one

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, jbeulich at novell dot com wrote:

> Isn't this the same as 16602 (which I don't really understand why it was
> rejected as invalid)? Also, if this *is* invalid, then what proper mechanism
> does one have to express what is intended here? And why does similar code
> compile warning free in C++?

Neither C nor C++ have qualified array types, only arrays of qualified 
element types, but C++ has different rules from C regarding conversions 
involving qualifiers, which allow some conversions (involving arrays or 
pointers to pointers) not allowed in C.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33076