>On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:46:13AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> No issue at all. With gcc builds, string constness should be reasonably >> well tested by now. > >If only that were true. The failure mode is at runtime, not build >time, and other than maybe Mike Sullivan, I'm not aware of anyone >routinely using the builds. You can use -Wwrite-strings to find these >problems at compile time, but the false positive rate is absurdly >high.
But aren't OpenSolaris users finding these issues as they may run gcc builds? (The kernel must be clean as it the AMD bits were gcc compiled for a while and I figured multiple folks in the OS community would run gcc compiled builds; what are the Distros doing? Nexenta, in particular? Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
