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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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hx509 error functions(3)					Heimdalx509library					  hx509 error functions(3)

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hx509 error functions - Functions void hx509_clear_error_string (hx509_context context) void hx509_set_error_stringv (hx509_context context, int flags, int code, const char *fmt, va_list ap) void hx509_set_error_string (hx509_context context, int flags, int code, const char *fmt,...) char * hx509_get_error_string (hx509_context context, int error_code) void hx509_free_error_string (char *str) void hx509_err (hx509_context context, int exit_code, int error_code, const char *fmt,...) Detailed Description See the Hx509 error reporting functions for description and examples. Function Documentation void hx509_clear_error_string (hx509_context context) Resets the error strings the hx509 context. Parameters: context A hx509 context. void hx509_err (hx509_context context, int exit_code, int error_code, const char * fmt, ...) Print error message and fatally exit from error code Parameters: context A hx509 context. exit_code exit() code from process. error_code Error code for the reason to exit. fmt format string with the exit message. ... argument to format string. void hx509_free_error_string (char * str) Free error string returned by hx509_get_error_string(). Parameters: str error string to free. char* hx509_get_error_string (hx509_context context, int error_code) Get an error string from context associated with error_code. Parameters: context A hx509 context. error_code Get error message for this error code. Returns: error string, free with hx509_free_error_string(). void hx509_set_error_string (hx509_context context, int flags, int code, const char * fmt, ...) See hx509_set_error_stringv(). Parameters: context A hx509 context. flags o HX509_ERROR_APPEND appends the error string to the old messages (code is updated). code error code related to error message fmt error message format ... arguments to error message format void hx509_set_error_stringv (hx509_context context, int flags, int code, const char * fmt, va_list ap) Add an error message to the hx509 context. Parameters: context A hx509 context. flags o HX509_ERROR_APPEND appends the error string to the old messages (code is updated). code error code related to error message fmt error message format ap arguments to error message format Version 1.5.2 11 Jan 2012 hx509 error functions(3)
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