On May 9, 2008, Dave Higginbotham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting a " warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to > ‘char*’" message in g++ (GCC) 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7).
> I've always understood there is no such thing as deprecation in C++ (and > have been proud of this concept). What gives? In pre-standard versions of C++, (narrow) string literals had type char[n], as in C, so they could decay to char*. As of the first C++ standard, such string literals have type char const[n], so they decay to char const*. For backward compatibility, [conv.array]/2 in C++98 specifies a deprecated implicit conversion from string literals to char*. > I've always understood there is no such thing as deprecation in C++ Annex D in the C++ Standard specifies a few other deprecated pre-standard language (mis?)features, defining deprecated as "Normative for the current edition of the Standard, but not guaranteed to be part of the Standard in future revisions." -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org}
