Compiling GCC With a C++ Compiler (g++)

[Andreas Schwab]

Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@cs.tamu.edu> writes:

> | What about this function: is it valid, conformant C?
> | 
> | void fubar (const char *x)
> | {
> |     *(char *)x = '?';
> | }
>
> It is valid C and C++, if only if the object pointed to by x is const.

No, it isn't.

Andreas.

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