On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 4:41 PM Helge Konetzka <[email protected]> wrote:

> Compiling with clang++ of msys2 toolchain clang64 leads to an error
> on initializing 'char*' variable nul with a 'const char*' value
>
> Signed-off-by: Helge Konetzka <[email protected]>
>

Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <[email protected]>


> ---
> Compiling with clang++ of msys2 toolchain clang64 leads to
>
> [1445/1747] Compiling C++ object
> qga/vss-win32/qga-vss.dll.p/install.cpp.obj
> FAILED: qga/vss-win32/qga-vss.dll.p/install.cpp.obj
> ...
> qga/vss-win32/install.cpp:49:24: error: cannot initialize a variable of
> type 'char *' with an rvalue of type 'const char *'
>      char *msg = NULL, *nul = strchr(text, '(');
>                         ^     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 1 error generated.
> ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.
> make: *** [Makefile:163: run-ninja] Error 1
> ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
>      Aborting...
> ---
>   qga/vss-win32/install.cpp | 3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/qga/vss-win32/install.cpp b/qga/vss-win32/install.cpp
> index 8076efe3cb..b57508fbe0 100644
> --- a/qga/vss-win32/install.cpp
> +++ b/qga/vss-win32/install.cpp
> @@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ void errmsg(DWORD err, const char *text)
>        * If text doesn't contains '(', negative precision is given, which
> is
>        * treated as though it were missing.
>        */
> -    char *msg = NULL, *nul = strchr(text, '(');
> +    char *msg = NULL;
> +    const char *nul = strchr(text, '(');
>       int len = nul ? nul - text : -1;
>
>       FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_ALLOCATE_BUFFER |
> --
> 2.30.2
>
>
>

-- 
Marc-André Lureau

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