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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!gumby!yale!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!ai-lab!hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu!mycroft
  2. From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  4. Subject: Re: why is it with kernel 0.99 that -fwritable-strings is required
  5. Date: 31 Dec 1992 21:39:56 GMT
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  7. Lines: 17
  8. Message-ID: <1hvpbcINN9mj@life.ai.mit.edu>
  9. References: <Bzzv0w.F9@rshark.mixcom.com> <1992Dec29.085026.14621@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <2B40862D.9B46@tct.com>
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  13. In article <2B40862D.9B46@tct.com> chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
  14. writes:
  15. >
  16. > According to parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry):
  17. >>
  18. >> The ANSI standard says that "C" strings are of type "const char[]".
  19. >
  20. > Not so.  Otherwise, ` char *p = "foo"; ' would elicit a warning.
  21.  
  22. The ANSI standard does not specify what should and should not generate
  23. diagnostics.
  24.  
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