where is the string literal allocated ? On the stack ?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:54:14AM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Right, it lives in one of the read-only segments. As noted in my other 
>> message it can't live on the stack or foo() would be broken, and it 
>> isn't (except for the return type missing the 'const' qualifier which is 
>> VERY broken).
> 
>    GCC used to have -fwritable-strings, but this option was removed for GCC
> 4.0.

And thank the GNU for that! -fwrite-strings was an abomination that only 
existed to support broken code. (Some of which I had to un-break... one 
of the products I work on *relied* on it until I unilaterally decided we 
needed to stop doing that*. Sigh, the joys of code written before 
'const' was standardized.)

(* IIRC the fact that it was deprecated meant that people weren't 
inclined to disagree with the decision :-). And now, indeed, it *is* 
gone, so I'm on solid footing backing it up as the /right/ decision even 
without the technical reasons.)

-- 
Matthew
<insert bad pun... on second thought, better not>