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From: mike@peregrine.UUCP (Mike Wexler)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Compiler features
Message-ID: <398@peregrine.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Jun-86 14:09:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: peregrin.398
Posted: Tue Jun  3 14:09:01 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Jun-86 19:46:54 EDT
References: <312@uw-nsr.UUCP> <1755@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: mike@peregrine.UUCP (Mike Wexler)
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In article <1755@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@maryland.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <312@uw-nsr.UUCP> john@uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook) writes:
> ...
>(The 4.2BSD dbx is terribly buggy.  To repeat the old war cry:
>`fixed in 4.3'---which (fanfare please) *has been released!*...)
Also fixed in Sun Unix. And probably other implementation of 4.2.
>
>>The second feature is the ability to declare certain data structures as
>>"read only." This is done via a compiler switch "-R" and applies to all 
>>data structures that are initialized to a constant value within the 
>>compilation unit.
>
>Surprise!  4BSD has the very same feature.  It is even documented.
>(At least in 4.3; if it is not documented in 4.2, well, `fixed in
>...'.)  This is perhaps most useful to make the text of string
>constants sharable.
This feature is documented on the Sun.
>

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