Re: [boost] Re: Problem with test/cpp_main.cpp

From: Darin Adler (darin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-31 12:00:38

On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 09:33 AM, Victor A. Wagner, Jr. wrote:

> surely changing the required signature to allow for const is a better 
> solution
> putting const in the signature ALLOWS you to pas both const _and_ 
> non-const items.

Not really.

You can't pass a char ** to a function that takes a char const **. If 
you could, that could create a const violation if you took a char const 
*, put it in one of the array elements, then returned to the caller who 
would then be able to treat it as a char * and modify it.

You can pass a char ** to a function that takes a char const * const *, 
but that's something different.

But I don't think any of this is relevant to the problem the original 
poster is reporting, because cpp_main is declared in cpp_main.cpp. In 
his case, the signature has to match exactly, not just be compatible.

     -- Darin