On Thu, 30 Sep 2021, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> By marking these static & the array itself as const, the data is moved
> - static const char *rhosts_files[] = {".shosts", ".rhosts", NULL};
> + static const char * const rhosts_files[] = {".shosts", ".rhosts", NULL};
Is this really true nowadays? I thought with PIC/PIE, these are
relocations and therefore neither constant nor shared/shareable,
at least for some architectures (i386?).
But it’s nevertheless a good idea, of course.
bye,
//mirabilos
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