rationale for eliding modifications to string constants

[Godmar Back]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
>
> I think this is simply a bug.  It doesn't happen with current gcc.  With
> gcc 4.4.3 the assignment is being eliminated because it is considered to
> be dead code.
>
> I agree that it is an error for gcc to simply eliminate this assignment
> with no warning.
>

Thanks, that's what I thought.

 - Godmar