Re: [IDE] Fix build bug

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Thu Oct 25 2007 - 13:13:00 EST


On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> > Somebody wants to mix up read-only and read/write data in the same
> > section and GCC quite legitimately complains about it. You cannot have
> > both at a time.
>
> My interpretation is that it would be perfectly ok for a C compiler to
> do minimal handling of const by only throwing errors for attempted
> assignments to const objects but otherwise treating them as if they
> were non-const, that is for example putting them into an r/w section.

That would probably be valid (any C standard expert please correct me if
I am wrong), but the approach looks like: since we have the capability in
the hardware and the OS, then why not actually enforce the rule at the run
time as well?

Maciej
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