C++ Issue with const char * on strchr

[Conrad Meyer]

On Tuesday 10 March 2009 01:26:55 pm Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> hallo,
>
> I have a odd issue with the current g++ 4.4 release on rawhide.
>
> If I try to pass a string declared as const char * in a c++ programm
> to the
> strchr function, I will get an error message which tell me, that a
> conversation
> from const char * to char * is not valid.
>
> Because this doesn't happens on older releases of g++, I want to as:
> Is this
> a bug or a feature?
>
> Best Regards:
>
> Jochen Schmitt

My understanding is you can do something like this:

  const char *str1, str2;
  str2 = strchr(str1, 'a');

But str2 must be a const char *.

Maybe I am wrong, I am not very familiar with C++.

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>