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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Minor problems in nethack 3.0
Message-ID: <1623@atari.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 89 16:36:08 GMT
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mike@turing.cs.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) writes:
>1: If you set gcc to be your compiler, make sure you set 
>    -fwritable-strings in the CFLAGS macro.
>2: Gcc gives lots of
>   warning: fooblat.c:nnn: non-const * set from const *
> warning.

The first removes the problems with the second.  The warning in (2) is
usually suppressed (even with -Wall) because so many traditional C
programs don't use const in the ANSI way.  It only generates incorrect
code (common strings folded, all strings in read-only segments) if you
don't also have -fwritable-strings.  (OK, OK, not incorrect code, but
code which doesn't behave the way UNIX-cc-generated code behaves.)

Thanks for the tip.

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