Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!minow 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 Article-I.D.: decvax.52 Posted: Fri Mar 8 20:09:15 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Mar-85 07:06:27 EST References: <8997@brl-tgr.ARPA> Lines: 13 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 decvax!minow