On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 08:45 +0200, Holger Schurig wrote: Ok, I did. It found a few bugs, but not these. On the other hand, the compiler warned about these. The warnings from g++ for this particular problem are: main.cpp: In function ‘void out_of_memory()’: main.cpp:234:72: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-strings] main.cpp: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’: main.cpp:465:39: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ main.cpp:234:10: warning: conversion from string literal to 'char *' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-writable-strings] sprintf("%s...\n",_("PowerTOP is out of memory. PowerTOP is Aborting")); ^ main.cpp:465:10: warning: conversion from string literal to 'char *' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-writable-strings] sprintf("%s\n", _("Leaving PowerTOP")); ^ The most interesting part is actually that the compilers reported this as a warning and not an error. /MF