[gambit-list] gcc char* warnings

Marc Feeley feeley at iro.umontreal.ca
Tue Feb 17 16:41:34 EST 2009


On 17-Feb-09, at 3:54 PM, lowly coder wrote:

> i'm getting a bunch of warnings of the form:
>
> warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*'
>
> is this something I should:
>
> 1) fix via a gcc option to not give me these warnings or
> 2) fix something I'm doing wrong with c-ffi that's resulting in  
> these warnings

I think the problem is that string constants are really of type "const  
char*", and Gambit does not yet support the "const" qualifier.

I'm planning to support this soon.  For now just ignore it.

Marc




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