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Entry  07 Sep 2009, Exaos Lee, Forum, deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ make-warnings.log
    Reply  27 Sep 2009, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ 
       Reply  27 Sep 2009, Exaos Lee, Forum, deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ 
       Reply  19 Oct 2009, Exaos Lee, Forum, It' better to fix this warnings 
          Reply  10 Nov 2009, Stefan Ritt, Forum, It' better to fix this warnings 
Message ID: 646     Entry time: 27 Sep 2009     In reply to: 641     Reply to this: 647   664
Author: Konstantin Olchanski 
Topic: Forum 
Subject: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’  
> I encountered many warning while building MIDAS (svn r4556). Please see the
> attached log file. Most of them are caused by type conversion from string to
> "char*".
> Though I can ignore all the warning without any problem, I still hate to see
> them. :-)

There is no "type conversions". The compiler is whining about code like this:

/* data type names */
static char *tid_name[] = {
   "NULL",
   "BYTE",
   ...

I guess we should keep the compiler happy and make them "static const char*".

BTW, my compiler is SL5.2 gcc-4.1.2 and it does not complain. What's your compiler?

K.O.
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