How to get rid of `deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’` warnings in GCC?

Any functions into which you pass string literals "I am a string literal" should use char const * as the type instead of char*.

If you're going to fix something, fix it right.

Explanation:

You can not use string literals to initialise strings that will be modified, because they are of type const char*. Casting away the constness to later modify them is undefined behaviour, so you have to copy your const char* strings char by char into dynamically allocated char* strings in order to modify them.

Example:

#include <iostream>

void print(char* ch);

void print(const char* ch) {
    std::cout<<ch;
}

int main() {
    print("Hello");
    return 0;
}

I believe passing -Wno-write-strings to gcc will suppress this warning.

I had a similar problem, I solved it like this:

#include <string.h>

extern void foo(char* m);

int main() {
    // warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’
    //foo("Hello");

    // no more warning
    char msg[] = "Hello";
    foo(msg);
}

Is this an appropriate way of solving this? I do not have access to foo to adapt it to accept const char*, although that would be a better solution (because foo does not change m).