Alan Coopersmith wrote: > James Carlson wrote: > > Why not go through the normal path? Devise a fix, request a sponsor, > > get code reviews and testing, and then integrate. > > Have you looked at http://opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/request_sponsor/ > lately? You can see how many Roland has devised a fix for, requested a > sponsor, and been ignored for months or longer (the first one on the list > from him is now over a year old). > > Given our poor track record, it seems more likely we'll just migrate to > Studio 13 first, which will have -xstrconst on by default.
If Sun Studio _ever_ uses "-xstrconst" by default. AFAIK we're waiting for that since four or five major compiler releases (even after pointing out that the standard requires non-writeable string literals) since the first RFE had been filed... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
