Compiling GCC With a C++ Compiler (g++)
Matt Austern
austern@apple.com
Wed Oct 13 20:41:00 GMT 2004
On Oct 13, 2004, at 12:09 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Matt Austern <austern@apple.com> writes:
>
>> I think this discussion is probably best conducted using precisely the
>> wording in the C standard. I don't believe the phrase "read-only" is
>> defined in that standard. Here's my analysis.
>>
>> Clause 6.7.3/5 says "If an attempt is made to modify an object defined
>> with a const-qualified type through use of an lvalue with
>> non-const-qualified type, the behavior is undefined."
>
> Do we have an "object defined with a const-qualified type" in the first
> place? I don't think we have. The object in question is obtained by
> the
> equivalent of malloc() (called ggc_alloc_stat here) which returns a
> modifiable object with a non-qualified type.
You're right, sorry.
--Matt
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