Bug 18743

Summary: could not convert `x' to `const char *&'
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Dan Melchione <dm.redhat>
Component: gccAssignee: Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Dan Melchione 2000-10-09 21:10:56 UTC 
#include "stdio.h"
void test(const char *&pString) {}
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    char *x = "test";
    test(x);
    return 0;
}

returns the error:
test2.cpp: In function `int main (int, char **)':
test2.cpp:6: could not convert `x' to `const char *&'
test2.cpp:2: in passing argument 1 of `test (const char *&)'

kgcc and other compilers work fine.
Comment 1 Dan Melchione 2000-10-09 21:11:57 UTC 
Created attachment 3944 [details]
sample source
Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2000-10-09 21:37:51 UTC 
There is no implicit conversion from char * to const char *&,
this testcase is really invalid.
Like the previous testcase, this is invalid already in g++ 2.95.