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- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!mongrel!shrdlu!gdm
- From: gdm@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca (Giles D Malet)
- Subject: Re: UUCP help!!!!!!!
- References: <Bz1yDG.1CEv@citrus.SAC.CA.US> <Bz3JM8.vM@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG>
- Organization: 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:57:12 GMT
- Message-ID: <BzDE7D.BpK@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca>
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- In article <Bz3JM8.vM@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG> steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG (Steve M. Robbins) writes:
- >
- >I also had these problems under pl6 (presumably it also breaks under pl5)
- >so what I did was recompile smail and taylor with "-fwritable-strings".
- >Now they both work.
- >C-news also had this problem.
-
- I wonder if that is really necessary...
-
- Last weekend I finally upgraded to the jump libs compiler, and recompiled
- nearly every program I had on the machine, including c-news, uucp,
- smail-3, etc. etc. /bin & /usr/bin stuff came from a root disk.
-
- Of all that lot, only one program required the `writable strings' bit -
- a fmt command from the net that had a `char *foo = "";' in it :-(
-
- I am against merrily using `-fwritable-strings' for the simple fact that
- is defeats the whole purpose of non-writable constants - bug detection.
- If a program is bombing, it is doing something nasty anyway.
-
- BTW, I did not recompile the `fmt' with `-fwritable-strings' - I fixed
- the definition. So now no progs have those damn flags.
-
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- Giles D Malet gdm@shrdlu.kwnet.on.ca
- Waterloo, Ont, Canada +1 519 725 5726 gdmalet@descartes.uwaterloo.ca
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