On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:49, Andrew Haley wrote: > > > > Don't you think that "" should end up in rw data? > > > > > > No: it's a literal string. Many, many years ago, C compilers put > > > literal strings into read/write memory and it was possible to alter > > > them, but C89 outlawed that practice. > > > > gcc doesn't warn me, it just produces buggy code. > > Not at all. This is normal C code, and the compiler is correct. It's > a read-only string. So, I assign pointer to read-only string to "char *p", non-constant pointer variable, and gcc doesn't warn me. Why? -- vda
