Re: Trouble with variable types (void *)

From: Olaf Martens (olafmartens_at_arcor.de)
Date: 02/01/04 

Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:43:04 +0100

Victor Bazarov schrieb:
> "Olaf Martens" <olafmartens@arcor.de> wrote in message
> news:401d0ec2$0$17562$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net...
>
>>Here's another problem that appeared recently:
>>
>>I have the following function call:
>>
>>l_test->Compress(&"filename.dat",l_buf);
>
>
> What's the "&" for?
g++ would complain otherwise and issue a warning: Deprecated conversion of
string constants to char *...
>

[snip]

>
> Drop the ampersand.
It's the second parameter that bothers me, not the first!
>
>

[snip]

>
> No, you missed the fact that you're not supposed to take addresses
> of literals.
Oh, really? And why does g++ complain when omitting the &, then?
So, once more: The problem is *NOT* the string literal, but the second
parameter (l_buf)!!! 

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