On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, David Laight wrote:

: IIRC --writable-strings causes gcc to put strings in the .data instead
: of .rodata.

Yes, -fwritable-strings does just this, and...

: I'm not at all sure it even changes the (impiled) type of the string
: itself.

Such string literals are treated, for expression analysis, as if the type
were "char *" (no const).

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