[Aldor-l] Compiling setup

[Ralf Hemmecke]

See

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.aldor/10/match=fwritable+strings
Date: 2005-02-08 19:48:53 GMT (1 year, 26 weeks, 1 day, 5 hours and 51 
minutes ago)

In a recent mail from one of the Aldor maintainers (which unfortunately 
wasn't copied to aldor-l) I can read

   All I said is that aldor cannot use the new version of the GNU C
   compiler because FSF decided to create the string literals as
   read-only.  Because of this, aldor no longer works with gcc 4 and
   above.  I tried again to compile aldor with gcc 4 and after some
   "standard compliance" changes I managed to compile the compiler, but
   it failed to compile the aldor runtime.  If it would have been a
   simple change to replace the writable literals (like the suggested
   char a[] ="a"), it would have been done by now.  If you look at the
   comments related to gcc-hacks in aldor.conf, you will see that it was
   used to avoid a bug.

There is still some bug in the Aldor compiler sources, and unfortunately 
we must wait until the sources are open to fix that.

Ralf