[Python-Dev] building with -Wwrite-strings (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Sep 28 23:09:54 CEST 2007


I'm trying to build Python (2.6) with GCC the option -Wwrite-strings.

1 - Is there any interest on this?

It might be nice to have, but will certainly come at a cost. So feel free to try this out; at the end, we might agree that this change is too intrusive.

2 - What should I do for the very common (taken from intnew): static char *kwlist[] = {"x", "base", 0};

What's wrong with

static const char *kwlist[] = {"x", "base", 0};

Regards, Martin



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