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From: ian@sibyl.eleceng.ua.oz.au
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Subject: Re: a first time for everything
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Date: 4 Sep 90 00:09:40 GMT
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Karl Swartz writes:
 > I also had a problem with the following:
 > 
 >     static char *tempname = "/tmp/fooXXXXXX";
 >         ...
 >     mktemp(tempname);
 > 
 > GCC makes the string in read-only, which led to a "bus error".  When I
 > changed the declaration to
 > 
 >     static char tempname[] = "/tmp/fooXXXXXX";
 > 
 > everybody was happy.

Well, that is the "correct" declaration. You could have also used
the "-fwritable-strings" option.

Ian Dall