GCC 3.4 Release Status (2003-12-16)

[Mark Mitchell]

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 09:57, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Conveniently, I already have a patch to remove -fwritable-strings.
> It's old and will require updating, but here it is anyway, just to
> demonstrate how many places have gotten infiltrated by this thing.

Yowsa.

I had no idea there were back end implications for this thing; I figured
the front end would have done the transformation itself.

That's a helluva argument for getting rid of it.

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Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
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