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Article #688Re: gcc 1.35 pointer bug
From: Doug Schmidt
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1989 22:25
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1989 22:25
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In article <19949@princeton.Princeton.EDU>, drh@notecnirp (Dave Hanson) writes:
>In article <8910042003.AA19615@uhura.cc.rochester.edu> msir_ltd@UHURA.CC.ROCHESTER.EDU (Mark Sirota) writes:
> This has already been reported to Joy Kendall and may have already been
> reported through other channels, since we discovered this a few days ago.
> Anyway, we are running gcc-1.35 on a Sun3 with an fpa, SunOS 4.0.3.
>
> The following program causes a segmentation fault:
> main() {
> char *s = "foo";
> *s = 'f';
> }
> This one seems pretty significant. I have a hard time the compiler managed to
> compile itself, and actually runs...
>
>and it should fault; the program attempts to change a constant.
>it worked in old C, but not in ANSI C...
Furthermore, if you have old C programs that depend on this behavior,
you can make gcc `do the right thing' by using the -fwritable-strings
option.
Doug
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!ginosko!usc!ucla-cs!uci-ics!news From: schmidt@zola.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt) Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug Subject: Re: gcc 1.35 pointer bug Message-ID: <1989Oct5.222512.7001@paris.ics.uci.edu> Date: 5 Oct 89 22:25:12 GMT References: <19949@princeton.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@paris.ics.uci.edu (Network News) Reply-To: schmidt@zola.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt) Distribution: gnu Organization: University of California, Irvine - Dept of ICS Lines: 27 In-reply-to: drh@notecnirp.Princeton.EDU (Dave Hanson)