An odd C++ error: test.cpp:15: error: passing ‘const *’ as ‘this’ argument of ‘*’ discards qualifiers

Question

I\'m having some trouble with a particular piece of code, if anyone can enlighten me on this matter it would be greatly appreciated, I\'ve isolated the problem down in the f

Answer 1

The line: test2.test()

is calling a non const function, even though test2 is a const reference. That's the problem. You can fix this by making testing::test a const function.