[Linux-ha-dev] cast lvalues is deprecated

[Alan Robertson]

Zhu, Yi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know here is not comp.lang.c, but may I have a question?
> 
> I use gcc 3.3.3 within Fedora Core 2. I can't compile below
> code without warning any more. Any chance to fix it without strcpy?
> 
> main()
> {
>         char * a; /* a must be char * */
> 
>         (const char *)a = "something";

This is illegal 'C'.  The compiler is right to complain about it.

You need to fix the real problem.

You can try the code below, if someone else's software you have no control 
over is broken...

I've had to do this in a place or two in the linux-ha...

	char a[] = "something";

This should work for you...
	char a[] is equivalent to char * a...


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