[LLVMdev] RFC: -fwritable-strings Change

[Bill Wendling]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Duncan Sands <baldrick at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
>> My GCC-fu isn't great. Could someone review this to see if I broke anything?
>
> is there no better way?!  Is this an objc problem, a darwin problem or...?
> If it is an objc problem, can't you just have objc set the section on the
> strings (DECL_SECTION_NAME) when it creates them?  Anything but this patch,
> please! :)
>
Hi Duncan,

There is resistance to this patch, so it's not going in. :-) As I
mentioned to Anton, I think that there is a more fundamental problem
here. It isn't just Objective-C. I'm going to investigate more. It
might be possible to handle this in the back-end (which I would prefer
to do).

-bw

-bw