Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@xxxxxx> writes:
> When I compile code which uses the above call (puts("Hello, cruel world!\n");,
> const char* argument), I get the following:
..
> I realize that GCC cannot detect all constant values with
> __builtin_constant_p(), but in this case it seems internally
> inconsistent - it apparently emits a constant for the string
> address. Any takes? Would this qualify as a bug?
I think __builtin_constant_p is supposed to return true if its argument
is constant to the _compiler_.
Is a string really a "constant" in that sense? It's an address which
won't be known until link time, so I'd think not. The compiler can
generate _code_ that refers the string as a constant, because the
instruction's reference to it will be fixed up at link-time, but still,
it's not a compile-time constant.
-Miles
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