"Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com> writes:

> Finally your/my hack with ``char foo[] = "string";'' only fools GCC --
> it's not a proper or portable fix since if I understand correctly (I may
> be wrong as I'm no GCC internals expert!) it doesn't really de-const the
> string constant that your "foo" will point to.  Only -fwritable-strings
> will do that (at least with GCC), and unfortunately it does it for the
> whole module, not just one string constant.

Using `char foo[] = "string"' does de-const the string.  It creates a
modifiable array, and initializes it with the string constant.  The
string winds up in .data rather than .rodata.

Ian