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Re: RFC: Desupport -fwritable-strings
Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de> writes:
> On Monday 21 April 2003 19:33, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> [...]
>> Here's a draft of expanded text for gcc-3.4/changes.html:
>>
>> <li>GCC no longer accepts the <code>-fwritable-strings</code>
>> option. This will break programs that depend on being able to
>> write into string constants. To fix them, often you can can
>> simply replace a pointer to a string constant with a character
>> array initialized by a string constant. For example:
>> <pre>
>> char <b>*</b>template = "/tmp/progXXXXXX";
>> int fd = mkstemp(template);
>> </pre>
>> becomes
>> <pre>
>> char template<b>[]</b> = "/tmp/progXXXXXX";
>> int fd = mkstemp(template);
>
> Please give an example in C (I don't care whether additionally or instead),
Huh? That is an example in C.
zw