Re: ISO C++ forbids cast to non-reference type used as lvalue ?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring dot com>]

On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Daniel Kegel wrote:

> Steven Scholz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I upgraded my toolchain to gcc-3.4.4-glibc-2.3.5-linux-2.6.12 yesterday.
> >
> > Now while compiling my c++ application I get
> >
> >     ISO C++ forbids cast to non-reference type used as lvalue
> >
> > for lines like
> >
> >     (DWORD *) pbData += 1;
> >
> > How could I workaround that, i.e. is there a flag to shut up the compiler?
>
> No.  Fix your code.  Sorry.  Yes, it's painful.

i ran into precisely this problem trying to compile "openembedded"
with gcc4, and found out that the module utils code uses that lvalue
casting in places, which means you can't compile openembedded with
gcc4.  drat.

obviously, one can clean up one's *own* code, but it's more
troublesome when kernel and kernel-related code uses that now-illegal
construct.

rday

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