Removing -frwitable-strings

[Matt Austern]

On Dec 19, 2003, at 12:24 PM, Syd Polk wrote:

>> How could we make it more likely that people in future who are in a
>> similar position to that you were in then will have read the manual;
>> specifically, the section "Incompatibilities" that explains that 
>> strings
>> are readonly; or the comp.lang.c FAQ, which also mentions the issue?
>>
>
> Make -Wwrite-strings on by default. Otherwise, people who port to gcc 
> for the first time (like me when this happened) won't see it.

Dunno if it should be on by default, but I'd at least like to see it on 
with -Wall, at least with C++.  Lots of people try to make their code 
compile cleanly under -Wall.  Far fewer go through the manual seeking 
for switches to give them even more warnings.

			--Matt