------- Comment #10 from dnovillo at redhat dot com  2005-10-12 15:00 -------
Subject: Re:  C++ FE emitting assignments to read-only global symbols

On Wednesday 12 October 2005 10:55, mark at codesourcery dot com wrote:

> OK, so my patch is no longer directly useful then?  (It still seems like
> it would be an improvement in the abstract, in that assigning to
> TREE_READONLY variables is evil, but if it won't have any immediate
> tangible benefit, I'll leave this for 4.2.)
>
Leaving it for 4.2 should be fine.  It is only a micro-optimization and I 
only noticed it by chance because we were being too aggressive with it.  
Yes, it's nice to stop the FE from generating stores to TREE_READONLY, but 
it's not the end of the world for 4.1.

Thanks.


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