Douglas Walls <Douglas.Walls at Sun.COM> wrote:
> If we change the default of -xstrconst to be on, if your code modifies
> a string literal (gasp!), you can recover by using the new option
> -features=no%conststrings. But the option -features=no%conststrings
> does not exist in Sun Studio 12. Thus you cannot switch between
> Sun Studio 12 cc and the next version of Sun Studio cc, without
> also adding/removing -features=no%conststrings. So, to avoid
> that issue, we intend on patching Sun Studio 12 to add
> -features=no%conststrings.
If I make similar changes on my software, I announce this more than 2 years
before and I make sure that a new major release (with compatibility included)
is published after the announcement but before the change is actually made.
J?rg
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