Understood and agreed.

-----Original Message-----
From:	Andreas Schwab [SMTP:schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de]
Sent:	Monday, December 15, 1997 4:51 AM
To:	egcs@cygnus.com
Subject:	Re: tmpnam() core dumping

Bill Ahlbrandt <bahlbr@icdata.com> writes:

|> Yes, using -fwritable-strings fixes the problem.

No, it does not "fix" the problem, it just hides it away.  A program that
must be compiled with -fwritable-strings is simply broken.

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