Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Fri Oct 13 02:16:04 EDT 2017
Steve D'Aprano wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 03:37 pm, Gregory Ewing wrote:
>
>>If the compiler can tell where p is initially pointing, it could
>>put the pointer in read-only memory.
>
> If it's read-only, how can the compiler write to it?
>
> (I come from the days when ROM was actual ROM, burned in at the factory.)
So, the factory is allowed to write to it. Possibly
it's writing data that came from... a compiler?
A memory that couldn't be written to at all, ever, would
be a bit useless!
--
Greg
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