conversion from const char* to char*

[venkatacplpl]

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
#include<string.h>


int main()
{
char*a="Venkat";
cout<<a;
return 0;

}

Hi All,
I executed above program and its working perfectly fine to my surprise.
Why compiler is not thrwoing an error as I assigned Const char* to char* in the statement.
char*a="venkat"

is it expected behaviour?
I have faced these kind of errors many times earlier....why compiler is not throwing an error in this case?

Thanks in advance

[Peter87]

It's an exception to the rule. It was fixed in C++11 but many compilers still allow this, probably for backward compatibility.

[MikeyBoy]

Why are you including string.h? I don't see you using anything from that header.

[venkatacplpl]

@Peter87
Thanks for the clarification.

@MikeBoy
I was writing another program related to strings and didnt erase that header when I started writing this..