Deprecation?!

[Dave Higginbotham]

I'm getting a " warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to
‘char*’" message in g++ (GCC) 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7).

I've always understood there is no such thing as deprecation in C++ (and
have been proud of this concept). What gives? Does the standards
committee allow deprecation - have I been wrong all along - or is the
Ubuntu team trying way too hard to be like Microsoft (who declares
deprecations in their latest compilers)?


Thanks,