On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 04:51:48PM +0300, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
> > #include <string.h>
> > void func( const char **p ) { }
> > main()
> > {
> > char *str = strdup("abc");
> > func( &str );
> > }
> >
> > test.cc:6: error: invalid conversion from `char**' to `const char**'
>
> It's actually the reverse. I.e. iconv on your system is declared as
> iconv(...,char **inbuf,...)
>
> while correct prototype is
> iconv(...,const char **inbuf,...)
Not inherently, since then you couldn't pass a pointer to a buffer that
*isn't* const, without another cast. That's what I was showing.
Neither is correct--the desired constness can't be expressed in C++.
--
Glenn Maynard
