From: Charles Hannum (mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu)
Date: 12/31/92


From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Subject: Re: why is it with kernel 0.99 that -fwritable-strings is required
Date: 31 Dec 1992 21:39:56 GMT


In article <2B40862D.9B46@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
writes:
>
> According to parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry):
>>
>> The ANSI standard says that "C" strings are of type "const char[]".
>
> Not so. Otherwise, ` char *p = "foo"; ' would elicit a warning.

The ANSI standard does not specify what should and should not generate
diagnostics.

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