From: Richard Dawe Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: err Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 21:56:34 +0100 Organization: Customer of Planet Online Lines: 19 Message-ID: <394D3782.F23E5A3A@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> References: <394D23E1 DOT E8ECF81A AT ne DOT infi DOT net> NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-245.fluorine.dialup.pol.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk 961362616 26044 62.136.8.245 (18 Jun 2000 21:10:16 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jun 2000 21:10:16 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i586) X-Accept-Language: de,fr To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Hello. Martell wrote: > passing 'const * char' as argument 5 of 'my_func(short int, short int, > short int, short int, unsigned char *)' discards qualifiers > > what does this error mean? It means that the 'const' part of the 'const char *' part is being discarded within the function. You are also doing a conversion for a char to an unsigned char. You may not mind the 'const' being ignored, but you should be careful with the char -> unsigned char conversion (signed vs. unsigned problems). Hope this helps, bye, -- Richard Dawe [ mailto:richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com | http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ]