>Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:15:53 +0200
>From: Ingolf Steinbach <ingolf.steinbach@jena-optronik.de>
>
>On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 09:29:57PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>> gcc will allocate strings in text segment, which means they're read-only.
>
>Doesn't that mean that the compiler should at least issue
>a diagnostic if you implicitly cast away the const-ness
>by saying char* xyz = "foo";?

The flag -Wwrite-strings will enable this warning.

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