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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: LINT Errors
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>do pass constant strings for it all the day.  gcc doesn't seem to warn
>if you pass a string literal (albeit its arranging for the string
>literal to be in the .text segment).

Use -Wwrite-strings to get a warning for this.

Bruce