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From: dschmidt@athena.mit.edu (Dan Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: my two cents
Keywords: string constant
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Date: 8 Aug 88 02:57:23 GMT
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In-reply-to: davidra@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (David A. Rabson)

In article <5812@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, davidra@batcomputer (David A. Rabson) writes:
] I just got my hands on a copy of the second edition of K&R and was
] distressed to read that "[string constants] are no longer modifiable,
] and so may be placed in read-only memory."
]
] This will cause mktemp() and many, many other things to break.  I hope
] the committee will reconsider this: if it stays in the standard,
] people who write compilers are going to have to add a compiler option
] to turn it off.  More likely, they will keep it off by default.

The GNU C compiler does not allow the programmer to modify string constants.
This feature can be turned off.

Dan Schmidt
dschmidt@athena.mit.edu