Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 16:33:34 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cv-quals lack an intervening 'const' Message-ID: <20001207163334.H16933@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <2.2.32.20001207212118.00696b24@198.102.228.210> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.20001207212118.00696b24@198.102.228.210>; from brinkman@omi.com on Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 04:21:18PM -0500 On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Donald Brinkman wrote: >Hello all . . . > >I have been given the task of porting a small project from an IRIX >environment into a visual c++ compatible library. To accomplish this I >decided to use Cygwin, since it has such nice utilities for creating DLLs. >Everything has been going fine, with only a few changes here and there, >until I stopped dead on this problem. Given the member function: > >const Foo** FooBar::getA() const > { > return ( A ) > } > >where A is a const Foo** > >I get the following message: > >Return to const Foo** from Foo **const adds cv-quals without intervening >'const'. > >Now, please, can someone tell me just what a cv-qual is and why the compiler >complains about this on Cygwin with gcc but not on IRIX with cc? Any help >would be greatly appreciated. It's possible that someone might know the answer to this question here but you'll probably have more luck on one of the gcc mailing lists: http://gcc.gnu.org/lists.html Cygwin uses the standard FSF gcc release and this sounds like a standard gcc question. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com