On 12/3/18 4:56 PM, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> What revision of C++ added those runtime type conversions? Is it
> plausible that any projects out there might be using an older C++
> version? Could there be a compiler out there that does not do those
> conversions on function calls even though it should?
We use GCC, and don't care about other compilers. :-)
> What, if any, harm does having these unneeded functions do?
None. Ben is correct that at least since C++11, if not before, the
"const std:string &" does convert any C style "char *" to a stdc++
string. I'll get tired of apologizing, but I was still learning C++ when
that code was written. :-) Anyway, I wrote that file, and I think the
patch is appropriate.
Funny enough, recently I've been bringing an ancient C++ project of
mine (powerguru) from the same era back to life, and it's seriously
embarrassing to look at the code I wrote then. I just made that exact
same change in that project a few days ago... For Ben, it's a soon to be
a Raspberry PI based system for monitoring PV power systems. Used to run
on S100 systems with different sensors.
- rob -
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