On 2/10/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Hylton wrote: > > Ok. I reviewed the original problem and you're right, the problem was > > not that it failed outright but that it produced a warning about the > > deprecated conversion: > > warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*'' > > > > I work at a place that takes the same attitude as python-dev about > > warnings: They're treated as errors and you can't check in code that > > the compiler generates warnings for. > > In that specific case, I think the compiler's warning should be turned > off; it is a bug in the compiler if that specific warning cannot be > turned off separately.
The compiler in question is gcc and the warning can be turned off with -Wno-write-strings. I think we'd be better off leaving that option on, though. This warning will help me find places where I'm passing a string literal to a function that does not take a const char*. That's valuable, not insensate. Jeremy > While it is true that the conversion is deprecated, the C++ standard > defines this as > > "Normative for the current edition of the Standard, but not guaranteed > to be part of the Standard in future revisions." > > The current version is from 1998. I haven't been following closely, > but I believe there are no plans to actually remove the feature > in the next revision. > > FWIW, Annex D also defines these features as deprecated: > - the use of "static" for objects in namespace scope (AFAICT > including C file-level static variables and functions) > - C library headers (i.e. <stdio.h>) > > Don't you get a warning when including Python.h, because that > include <limits.h>? > > > Nonetheless, the consensus on the c++ sig and python-dev at the time > > was to fix Python. If we don't allow warnings in our compilations, we > > shouldn't require our users at accept warnings in theirs. > > We don't allow warnings for "major compilers". This specific compiler > appears flawed (or your configuration of it). > > Regards, > Martin > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
