[Issue 1766] segfault writing to a string variable...

[Derek Parnell]

On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:03:13 +0100, Kenny B wrote:

> d-bugmail at puremagic.com wrote:
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1766
>> 
>> bugzilla at digitalmars.com changed:
>> 
>>            What    |Removed                     |Added
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>              Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
>>          Resolution|                            |INVALID
>> 
>> ------- Comment #2 from bugzilla at digitalmars.com  2008-01-02 20:57 -------
>> This is not a bug, string literals are read-only.
>> 
> 
> Ok, I understand it's not a bug and it makes perfect sense, but why did
> the same exact code work as I originally expected with dmd-2.003?
> shouldn't that also be read-only?
> 
> Is it a bug that dmd works?

Yes. The Linux compiler places literals in read-only memory but the Windows
one doesn't. This is sort of fixed in D v2.

-- 
Derek
(skype: derek.j.parnell)
Melbourne, Australia
4/01/2008 2:25:46 PM