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C++ - deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’

Asked 2011-10-25T22:27:52.707
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Deprecated conversion from string constant to char * error

I tried to run old C++ code today (this code gone right in 2004 :). But now I got this error message:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home/thehost/Plocha/lpic-1.3.1/lpic/src'
source='error.C' object='error.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/error.Po' tmpdepfile='.deps/error.TPo' \
depmode=gcc3 /bin/bash ../../config/depcomp \
g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../..    -g -O2 -Wno-deprecated  -g -O2 -c -o error.o `test -f 'error.C' || echo './'`error.C
error.C: In constructor ‘error_handler::error_handler(const char*, char*)’:
error.C:49:7: error: ‘cerr’ was not declared in this scope
error.C:58:11: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-    strings]
error.C:58:11: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-    strings]
error.C:58:11: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-    strings]
error.C:58:11: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-    strings]
make[1]: *** [error.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/thehost/Plocha/lpic-1.3.1/lpic/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Source of "error.C" file:

...
#include <error.h>

int error_handler::error_number   = 0;
int error_handler::message_number = 0;
int error_handler::debug_number   = 0;
int error_handler::Q_debug        = 1;
int error_handler::object_number  = 0;
int error_handler::tab            = 33;  

error_handler::error_handler(const char *name, char *error_file_name)
{
  errname = new char [filename_size];
  strcpy(errname,error_file_name);

  errfile.open(errname,ios::app);

  if (!errfile)
    {
      cerr << "error_handler: cannot open error file " << errnam
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There's an compilation error, which states that cerr is not defined. Other answers tell You how to fix problems higlighted by warning messages. To compile you need to include iostream and use the namespace std (or add namespace before stream name and endl).

Here's some example code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main( ) 
{
   cerr << "test" << endl;
}
answered 2011-10-25T22:44:16.407

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