[ On , July 14, 2003 at 17:37:46 (-0700), Ian Lance Taylor wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: toolchain/22118: make won't compile with -Wcast-qual -Wstrict-prototypes and more
>
> 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.

Ah, OK, thanks for clarifying that trick really does do the right thing,
at least with GCC, I assume.

However so far as I can tell (from informal sources -- I've not got a
copy of the final C standard) such treatment of string constants in
array initializers like that in the example above is not strictly
compliant with Standard C.  From what I read in Harbison and Steele all
string constants have the type "const char []" and _may_ be allocated in
read-only storage.

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