Bug Report !

[Kiran-Krishna-Nadgir]

	HI !,
		i am sorry for the small mistake actually it gave an ICE
while i was compiling the program. 



On 8 May 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On May  7, 2000, Kiran-Krishna-Nadgir <c9913018@ncb.ernet.in> wrote:
> 
> > i ran the following program and got an internal compiler error.
> 
> > 		char* const ptr = "Its me";
> > 		*ptr = 'i';
> 
> Do you mean you got a `Segmentation Fault'?  You can't get an ICE
> while you *run* a program, only while you compile it.
> 
> Your code assumes string literals are modifiable, but the ISO C
> Standard says they shouldn't be assumed to be.  GCC stores them in
> read-only sections, so attempts to modify them cause the error you
> observe.  See -fwritable-strings.
> 
> -- 
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