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Top Forums Programming error: invalid conversion from ‘const char*’ to ‘char*’ Post 302529509 by Corona688 on Thursday 9th of June 2011 12:24:29 PM
Old 06-09-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by shamrock
Not if it's cast from char* to const char* but the other way around...sure!
Code:
xpp.cxx:200: error: invalid conversion from ‘const char*’ to ‘char*’

Like shamrock says you may need to modify something to fix it. Since you haven't posted line 200 (and a bit of context) we don't know exactly what's making it throw up though.
 

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ost::HEXdump(3) 					     Library Functions Manual						   ost::HEXdump(3)

NAME
ost::HEXdump - Produces a dump of a buffer in a hexdump way with its code Ascii translation and relative buffer address. SYNOPSIS
#include <applog.h> Public Member Functions HEXdump (const unsigned char *buffer, int buff_len, int max_len=200) HEXdump constructor. virtual ~HEXdump () HEXdump destructor. const char * c_str () const const char* cast provided for conveneince. std::string str () string cast provided for conveneince. Protected Attributes std::string _str output string Friends std::ostream & operator<< (std::ostream &out, const HEXdump &hd) operator << Detailed Description Produces a dump of a buffer in a hexdump way with its code Ascii translation and relative buffer address. For instance: 0000000 - 77 98 21 49 0e 00 05 00 40 1c 01 1c 2f 00 00 00 w.!I....../... Constructor &; Destructor Documentation ost::HEXdump::HEXdump (const unsigned char *buffer, intbuff_len, intmax_len = 200) HEXdump constructor. Parameters: buffer buffer to be 'hexdumped' buff_len buffer length max_len max number of bytes to be 'hexdumped'. Usefull to truncate output. mas_len=0 does prints all. virtual ost::HEXdump::~HEXdump () [inline], [virtual] HEXdump destructor. Member Function Documentation const char* ost::HEXdump::c_str () const [inline] const char* cast provided for conveneince. std::string ost::HEXdump::str () [inline] string cast provided for conveneince. Friends And Related Function Documentation std::ostream& operator<< (std::ostream &out, const HEXdump &hd) [friend] operator << Parameters: hd hexdump. Returns: application logger stream Member Data Documentation std::string ost::HEXdump::_str [protected] output string Author Generated automatically by Doxygen for GNU CommonC++ from the source code. GNU CommonC++ Sat Jun 23 2012 ost::HEXdump(3)
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