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From: minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Strung Out
Message-ID: <52@decvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 20:09:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  8 20:09:15 1985
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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."

Glad to see it's back.

Decus C (public domain for PDP-11's) can be made to put strings
and other objects into read-only storage.  This was done by
a non-portable extension to the language.

Martin Minow
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