Q: C++ FE emitting assignments to global read-only symbols?

[Richard Kenner]

    I agree, in principle.  The C++ FE should not set TREE_READONLY on 
    variables that require dynanmic initialization.  Until now, that's not 
    been a problem, and it does result in better code.  But, it's now 
    becoming a problem, and we have others way to get good code coming down 
    the pipe.

Note that we had the same problem with the Ada FE a while ago.