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Article #50535Re: modifying string constants
From: Tony Silva
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 16:54
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 16:54
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Jason:
Here's the option you can use for backward compatibility with non-ANSI
C code that modifies string constants (extracted from the gcc info
file):
`-fwritable-strings'
Store string constants in the writable data segment and don't
uniquize them. This is for compatibility with old programs which
assume they can write into string constants. `-traditional' also
has this effect.
Writing into string constants is a very bad idea; "constants"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
should be constant.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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