Why I get; initializing 'char *' with an expression of type 'const char *' discards qualifiers?

Question

I can\'t figure out why I get this warning from clang by myself:

function_prototype_const_modifier.c:13:8: warning: initializing \'char *\' with         


        

Answer 1

You are pointing to the same area in memory, but not qualifying it as const as well, which the argument is.

You then allow the function body to modify that part of memory which is labelled const.