c++ cast bug ?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Sep 20, 2001, John Levon <moz@compsoc.man.ac.uk> wrote:

> oprofpp.c:143: cannot convert `char **' to `const char **' for argument
> `3' to `poptGetContext (const char *, int, const char **, const
> poptOption *, int)'

> how can this be right (where is implicit cast to const version of char **) ? 

The argument was const_casted to char**, but the parameter has type
const char**, and there's no implicit conversion from char** to const
char**.

> if it's wrong or not, how do I fix my code to work ?

Just take the const_cast out.

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