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Re: Removing -frwitable-strings

From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie at shareable dot org>
Cc: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot COM>, Mike Stump <mrs at apple dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, kcook34 at ford dot com, zack at codesourcery dot com, rearnsha at arm dot com
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:02:06 -0800
Subject: Re: Removing -frwitable-strings
Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
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Reply-to: mark at codesourcery dot com

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 10:57, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Someone said that -fwritable-strings could be implemented in the front
> end, but currently it isn't and that adds unwanted code to
> the back end.
> 
> Perhaps it's quite a simple change to make string constants have type
> "char[]" in the C and C++ front ends instead of "const char[]"?  (No,
> I'm not volunteering).

It ain't that easy, sadly.

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Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
CodeSourcery, LLC

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