GCC 3.4 Release Status (2003-12-16)

[Richard Earnshaw]

mark@codesourcery.com said:
> Do we still need -fwritable-strings?  We have a 3.4 regression with
> that option, and I would prefer just to remove the option, since we're
> moving away from supporting traditional C anyhow. 

Rather than killing it outright with no notice, why not deprecate it and 
say that any bugs in the implementation will no-longer be fixed.

R.