Assigning value to a volatile string

[MrMojoRisin]

Hi,

I've been trying this for awhile and I'm just about to give up and use volatile char* instead. I cannot even get this to work with a simple example. What am I missing?

Here's the most simple example I can think of that illustrates my problem:

#include <string>
using namespace std;

volatile string blah;

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
        blah = "";
}

Here's the compiler error, compiled with g++:

main.cpp: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’:
main.cpp:7: error: passing ‘volatile std::string’ as ‘this’ argument of ‘std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>& std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::operator=(const _CharT*) [with _CharT = char, _Traits = std::char_traits<char>, _Alloc = std::allocator<char>]’ discards qualifiers

I can't even make sense of that error. string.assign() gives a similar error.