f11 g++ behaviour

[Deji Akingunola]

--- On Tue, 2/24/09, David L <idht4n at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: David L <idht4n at gmail.com>
> Subject: f11 g++ behaviour
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Received: Tuesday, February 24, 2009, 5:32 PM
> This is a bit off topic, but it's something I noticed
> when logged into my f11 partition.  An application
> fails to compile that used to compile with f10.
> I've condensed the problem to this:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>   char *gr;
>   const char *pl="BlahHello world!";
>   const char *gt="Hell";
>   gr = strstr(pl, gt);
>   printf("%s\n", gr);
>   return 0;
> }
> 
> In f10, this compiles with g++.  In f11, it compiles
> with gcc, but not with g++.  It fails with this error:
> 
> test.cpp:8: error: invalid conversion from 'const
> char*' to 'char*'
>
See https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-January/msg02248.html and https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-February/msg01576.html announcement and comment concerning this new behaviour.


Deji



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