------- Comment #9 from mark at codesourcery dot com 2005-10-12 14:55 ------- Subject: Re: C++ FE emitting assignments to read-only global symbols
dnovillo at redhat dot com wrote: > Thanks Mark. The underlying code has shifted in the interim. There was > another bug that would cause us to ICE with code that specifically casted > away constness. We now should get this micro-optimization on the cases we > cared for (call-clobbering situations, mostly). OK, so my patch is no longer directly useful then? (It still seems like it would be an improvement in the abstract, in that assigning to TREE_READONLY variables is evil, but if it won't have any immediate tangible benefit, I'll leave this for 4.2.) -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20912
