From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>
To: zoluic@telostech.com
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: String literals
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 17:04:00 -0000
Message-id: <200004052356.BAA01094@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de>
References: <38EB99A1.DA0D547E@telostech.com>
X-SW-Source: 2000-04/msg00017.html

> I am having a problem running the enclosed test program. I expected
> program to pass the test points 1, 2 and 3 but instead it cored at
> point 2 (3). After looking into generated assembler code I noticed
> that string literals casted to array initializers (see pointers S2
> and s3) were put into read only segment. Is this correct (i.e. in
> compilance with ANSI C standard ) ?

Yes, this is indeed in compliance with the ISO C standard. gcc has an
option -fwritable-strings if you really need that function.

Regards,
Martin