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From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: Pragma inline results in duplicate strings?
Date: 1997/06/11
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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