g++ 2.95.2 voluntarily creates copies of const char arrays

Loren James Rittle rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com
Fri Mar 31 14:19:00 GMT 2000


> g++ appears to create copies of character arrays when they are being
> passed to template functions.

I can confirm that the problem exists in 2.95.X.  However, it has been
fixed in the main line compiler as built yesterday.

; /usr/local/bin/g++ t9.C; echo <=a.out
1
; /usr/local/beta-gcc/bin/g++ t9.C; echo <=a.out
0

Regards,
Loren


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