egcs bug? (fwd)

[Paul Ezust]

Thanks for the response.

I was confused by the three different compiler behaviors that
I described in my first message:

   gcc version egcs-2.90.27 980315 (egcs-1.0.2 release)
   gives an "Internal compiler error".

   gcc version egcs-2.91.60 19981201 (egcs-1.1.1 release)
   compiles it but produces a run-time error (segmentation fault)

   Centerline C++ compiler compiles and runs it with no problem.
   (Centerline sells a unix IDE called ObjectCenter.)

One colleague seems to think that compiling it so that it produces
a run-time error is the correct way to handle that error.
That makes me a bit queasy.

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On 20 Dec 1998, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Dec 20, 1998, Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> wrote:
> 
> > On Dec 19, 1998, Paul Ezust <ezust@zeus.cas.suffolk.edu> wrote:
> 
> >> int main() { char * const b = "abcdef"; b[3] = '3';
> 
> > You can't modify a constant string
> 
> Just to make sure it's clear, I meant `string literal' here
> 
> -- 
> Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
> oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
> Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil

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