C++ Issue with const char * on strchr

[Andrew Haley]

Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> Conrad Meyer schrieb:
>> const char *str1, str2; str2 = strchr(str1, 'a');
> 
>> But str2 must be a const char *.
> 
>> Maybe I am wrong, I am not very familiar with C++.
> 
>> Regards, My understanding is you can do something like this:
> 
> I am doing something like this
> 
> char *str2;
> const char *str1;
> 
> str2 = strchr(str1, 'a');    // This fails on gcc-4.4
> 
> When I write
> 
> char *str2;
> const char *str1;
> char *temp = const_cast<char *>(str1);
> 
> str2 = strchr(temp,'a')   // This works
> 
> Because this issue occurs only on gcc-4.4, I want to ask: is this
> a bug or a feature?

It's a feature.

Andrew.