Re: Newbie question

[iain <iain prettypeople org>]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 18:01, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> > "assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target
> > type"
> >
> > on line:
> >
> >  msg = gtk_entry_get_text(GTK_ENTRY(display));
> >
> > What does it mean???
> >  
> it means that `msg' was declared as `const [something] * msg;'
> and now that you are assigning something to it, the compiler must
> discard `const'.

Or the other way around.
gtk_entry_get_text returns const char *, and msg is probably char *.
either declare const char *msg, or cast it 
msg = (char *) gtk_entry_get_text...

iain
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