Hi everybody!
This thread was opened a long time ago, but I hit an issue
related to it today--this thread is the closest I could find
in the archives:
>> ... I have an API call which requires a const char *x,
>> how do I pass the variable myString in the function call ...
>
> hehe.. this dont work?
>
> APICall( (const char *) myPointer );
>
> ???
Why is the "const" in "(const char *)" needed?
basically, what I want to do is:
void APICall(const char * x);
void my_fun()
{
char myPointer[50];
...
APICall(myPointer);
...
return;
}
I understand that the reverse would be true--I shouldn't pass a
const char * to a routine that would modify it, but in this case
I'm passing a char * to a routine that is basically promising not
to modify it--but APIcall() doesn't really care if the variable passed
in is const or not.
I've got code like this all over in CW R6 that worked fine (and also
on other compilers, too), but now I get compiler errors in CW R7.
Is there a way to turn off that error?
thanks
Jeff Pahren
Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc.
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