Warnings about rcs_id strings: let's settle this

[Fergus Henderson]

On 02-May-2003, Kean Johnston <jkj@sco.com> wrote:
> the original
> construct that spawned this thread was almost always written as
> static char *sccsid = "blah";. By the way, why does THAT not emit a
> warning? You are assigning a const char * to a char *, thereby
> potentially losing the const-ness of it. I just tried with the head
> version and -Wall -Wextra -Wcast-qual didn't emit a warning.

"-Wwrite-strings" is the one you're looking for.
The manual explains why it is not in -Wall.

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