C++ Issue with const char * on strchr

[Andrew Haley]

Jochen Schmitt wrote:

> I have a odd issue with the current g++ 4.4 release on rawhide.
> 
> If I try to pass a string declared as const char * in a c++ programm
> to the
> strchr function, I will get an error message which tell me, that a
> conversation
> from const char * to char * is not valid.
> 
> Because this doesn't happens on older releases of g++, I want to as:
> Is this a bug or a feature?

In include/c++/4.4.0/cstring you should see:

  inline char*
  strchr(char* __s1, int __n)
  { return __builtin_strchr(const_cast<const char*>(__s1), __n); }

I wonder if you have not included the correct header.

Andrew.