"assignment discards 'const' qualifier" error on non-const pointer
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Solution 1
input
is a pointer to a constant char, and you're assigning it to a pointer to a non-constant char. This here might be an interesting reading for you.
Solution 2
you could also cast your 'input' variable with a (char*) type which would resolve the warning. just be careful using explicit casts like this so as not to modify constants themselves.
rest = (char*)input + i + 2;
Comments
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yasar over 3 years
In the following function:
char *mystrtok(const char *input, const char *delim,char *rest) { int i; for (i = 0; input[i] != *delim && input[i] != '\0'; ++i) { continue; } char *result = malloc(sizeof(char) * (i + 2)); memcpy(result, input, i + 1); result[i + 1] = '\0'; if (input[i + 1] != '\0') rest = input + i + 2; else rest = NULL; return result; }
I am getting
assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type
for the linerest = input + i + 2
, however, as you can see, rest is not a constant pointer. What am I doing wrong here? -
littleadv about 12 years@yasar11732 then you need
char * const
- the pointer is constant, not what it points to. -
flarn2006 almost 3 yearsI tried that and I still get the warning.