Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site harvard.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!stew From: stew@harvard.ARPA (Stew Rubenstein) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Strung Out Message-ID: <456@harvard.ARPA> Date: Sun, 10-Mar-85 07:41:39 EST Article-I.D.: harvard.456 Posted: Sun Mar 10 07:41:39 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 20:31:04 EST References: <8997@brl-tgr.ARPA> <52@decvax.UUCP> Organization: Aiken Computation Laboratory, Harvard Lines: 17 > Strings were in a read-only program section in an early release > (or perhaps field-test release) of VaxC for VMS. I thought it > was a good idea (I am a user, not a developer), but customers > said "no: it breaks code." > Martin Minow > decvax!minow I routinely do the necessary link-time magic to force the strings psect to be readonly. Something like PSECT_ATTR = $CHAR_STRING_CONSTANTS, NoWrt in your linker options file will do the trick. Caught a few bugs this way, I have. -- ----------------------- Stew Rubenstein UUCP: ihnp4!harvard!stew Harvard Chemistry ARPA: stew@harvard