DMD 1.004 release

Sean Kelly sean at f4.ca
Sat Jan 27 18:41:21 PST 2007


Jeff Nowakowski wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> What's happening is you're writing into the string literal, which is 
>> not allowed. String literals should be regarded as readonly.
> 
> So is there a reasonable way for D to enforce this?  I haven't been 
> following the recent const discussion in detail.  Would it help here and 
> actually be applied to literal strings in a future D?

This is enforced on Linux but not Win32.  I suspect this means it's an 
OS feature that Windows doesn't provide, but I've never heard anyone say 
for sure either way.


Sean



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