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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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Dt/Dts.h(file formats)													    Dt/Dts.h(file formats)

NAME
Dt/Dts.h -- data typing definitions SYNOPSIS
#include <Dt/Dts.h> DESCRIPTION
The Dt/Dts.h header declares the following structure: typedef struct _DtDtsAttribute { char *name; char *value; } DtDtsAttribute; The header declares the following as functions: DtDtsAttribute **DtDtsBufferToAttributeList(const void *buffer, const int size, const char *opt_name); char *DtDtsBufferToAttributeValue(const void *buffer, const int size, const char *attr_name, const char *opt_name); char *DtDtsBufferToDataType(const void *buffer, const int size, const char *opt_name); char *DtDtsDataToDataType(const char *filepath, const void *buffer, const int size, const struct stat *stat_buff, const char *link_path, const struct stat *link_stat_buff, const char *opt_name); int DtDtsDataTypeIsAction(const char *datatype); char **DtDtsDataTypeNames(void); DtDtsAttribute **DtDtsDataTypeToAttributeList(const char *datatype, const char *opt_name); char *DtDtsDataTypeToAttributeValue(const char *datatype, const char *attr_name, const char *opt_name); DtDtsAttribute **DtDtsFileToAttributeList(const char *filepath); char *DtDtsFileToAttributeValue(const char *filepath, const char *attr_name); char *DtDtsFileToDataType(const char *filepath); char **DtDtsFindAttribute(const char *attr_name, const char *attr_value); void DtDtsFreeAttributeList(DtDtsAttribute **attr_list); void DtDtsFreeAttributeValue(char *attr_value); void DtDtsFreeDataType(char *datatype); void DtDtsFreeDataTypeNames(char **namelist); void DtDtsLoadDataTypes(void); void DtDtsRelease(void); char *DtDtsSetDataType(const char *dirpath, const char *datatype, const int override); Dt/Dts.h(file formats)
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