[Aldor-l] Compiling setup

[Page, Bill]

On Thursday, August 10, 2006 8:56 PM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:

> ...
> What you have to do is that you need to modify the variable
> gcc-hacks from section [gcc] of /usr/local/aldor/linux/
> 1.0.3/aldor.conf not to include -fwritable-strings.  There
> is an obscure comment about why that flags is needed.  
> 
> Mine now reads:
> 
>   # On some platforms string literals are stored in read-only 
>     segments.
>   # This causes problems when users write Aldor programs in
>     which a
>   # string literal is used as a buffer. The result is a
>     segfault that
>   # is extremely hard to track down, even for experienced 
>     Aldor coders.
>   # GDR: Well, either that is a bug in Aldor, or a bug in 
>     those experienced
>   # GDR: aldor coders' programs.  At any rate, that option
>     is no
>   # longer supported.
>   #  gcc-hacks = -fwritable-strings
>      gcc-hacks = 
> 

Rather than "bug" I think it would be more fair to call
this a "design flaw"... :)

Does your change to aldor.conf actually work?? If so great!
But this does contradict a statement made recently by one
of (the only?) Aldor compiler developer here on this list.
How much testing have you done?

I presumed that the gcc developers removed rewritable-strings
because this "feature" of the C language is no longer
supported -- not just because they are "purists", right? ;)
So if Aldor can generate C code that violates this restriction,
it is probably not such a good idea to remove this "gcc-hack"
until the Aldor developers say it is no longer required. No?

Regards,
Bill Page.