[GRASS5] -fwritable-strings

[Justin Hickey]

Hi Markus

Regarding the use of -fwritable-strings, the gcc man page has the following:

-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 ef<AD>
              fect.

              Writing into string constants is a very  bad  idea;
              "constants" should be constant.

So why do we want to use this feature if it is bad and obsolete?

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Sincerely,

Jazzman (a.k.a. Justin Hickey)  e-mail: jhickey at hpcc.nectec.or.th
High Performance Computing Center
National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC)
Bangkok, Thailand
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