Compiler features

[Mike Wexler]

In article <1755 at umcp-cs.UUCP> chris at maryland.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <312 at uw-nsr.UUCP> john at uw-nsr.UUCP (John Sambrook) writes:
> ...
>(The 4.2BSD dbx is terribly buggy.  To repeat the old war cry:
>`fixed in 4.3'---which (fanfare please) *has been released!*...)
Also fixed in Sun Unix. And probably other implementation of 4.2.
>
>>The second feature is the ability to declare certain data structures as
>>"read only." This is done via a compiler switch "-R" and applies to all 
>>data structures that are initialized to a constant value within the 
>>compilation unit.
>
>Surprise!  4BSD has the very same feature.  It is even documented.
>(At least in 4.3; if it is not documented in 4.2, well, `fixed in
>...'.)  This is perhaps most useful to make the text of string
>constants sharable.
This feature is documented on the Sun.
>

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