Re: Problem with "warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’"

[Marc Glisse]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> I'm not sure what you want us to suggest.  You say that the names are
> modifiable.  String constants are not modifiable.  If the strings are
> indeed modified, and you pass in a string constant, then your program is
> going to crash when the library tries to modify the strings.  The gcc
> warning is helpfully pointing that out.
>
> This is not a gcc issue.  It's a C++ language issue.  If you need a
> modifiable string, then you must not use a string constant.

I am not sure what the OP is asking for, but note that some other 
compilers provide an option (-features=no%conststrings for sunCC) to 
handle such broken legacy code without modification.

-- 
Marc Glisse