------- Comment #2 from pinskia at gcc dot gnu dot org 2007-01-28 17:13 ------- More to the point, at one time in the past, GCC had an option to turn (constant) string literals into readwrite strings, that was removed in 4.0.0 (maybe even in 3.4.0). Also the standard says they are constant string literals and not just strings.
-- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30622
