On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> Hmm. Well, if so, I can be gracious about it and note that it's been 15 years
> since I did compiler work and the way *I* would do it clearly then doesn't
> match the way it's being done then. Oh well.

Take a look at the docs for gcc -fwritable-strings... you can get
gcc to let you do that, but it's not recommended :)
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