[GRASS5] -fwritable-strings

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 01:00:51PM +0200, Michel Wurtz - ENGEES/CEREG wrote:
> Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > It has nothing to do with GNU/Linux.
> > Only with old programs doing stuff like:
> > 
> >         char * x="Heino";
> >         x[2]='o';
> > 
> > Because the compiler with place &x in protected memory which is not
> > writable usually.
> 
> Yes, the correct declaration should be :
> 
> char x[]="Heino";
> 
> because the variable you can modify is yet the character table, and
> not the pointer to a static chain.
> It should be easy to upgrade, unless you do something like
> 
> x = "another chain";
> 
> further in the program... In this case, x must be a pointer and the
> first declaration should be used (char *x;) !

.. as the problem seems to be identified:
Is anyone willing to check src/ps.map/ps.map/ for this?
:-)

Markus

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