From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: Pragma inline results in duplicate strings?
Date: 1997/06/11
Date: 1997-06-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EBM4EM.3qB.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: EBIny1.LG7.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com
Tucker Taft (stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com) wrote:
: ... Some compilers "pool" strings, and
: others don't. There is no reason *not* to pool strings in Ada,
: since they are constants (unlike in C, where a string literal might
: be updated through a pointer).
I was reminded that ISO/ANSI C does *not* permit updating the characters
of a string literal. Old "classic" C allowed this sort of thing, but
ISO/ANSI C frowns on it, and I suspect most modern C compilers pool
all duplicate string literals appearing in a single source file.
-Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com http://www.inmet.com/~stt/
Intermetrics, Inc. Burlington, MA USA
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1997-06-04 0:00 Pragma inline results in duplicate strings? Dale Stanbrough
1997-06-04 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-06-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-09 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-06-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
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