Re: gcc 4.1.1: char *p = "str" puts "str" into rodata

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>]

On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 15:41 -0800, Ray Hurst wrote:
> Shouldn't the compiler error out here.
> The statement: p = "" should have been p = '\0';
> Or does the compiler treat them as equivalent.
> 
> It seems that only characters should be assigned to char's and strings 
> are illegal

Read about the option -Wwrite-strings:
  -Wwrite-strings             In C++, nonzero means warn about deprecated
                              conversion from string literals to `char *'.  In
                              C, similar warning, except that the conversion is
                              of course not deprecated by the ISO C standard.

-- Pinski