Strung Out

[Martin Minow]

Strings were in a read-only program section in an early release
(or perhaps field-test release) of VaxC for VMS.  I thought it
was a good idea (I am a user, not a developer), but customers
said "no: it breaks code."

Glad to see it's back.

Decus C (public domain for PDP-11's) can be made to put strings
and other objects into read-only storage.  This was done by
a non-portable extension to the language.

Martin Minow
decvax!minow