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@@ -88,6 +88,10 @@ Version 1.5.7beta03 [November 17, 2011]
this on assembler compilation, even though it does on C compilation.
This creates security issues if assembler code is enabled; the
work-around is to set it by default in the flags for $(CCAS)
+ Work around compilers that don't support declaration of const data. Some
+ compilers fault 'extern const' data declarations (because the data is
+ not initialized); this turns on const-ness only for compilers where
+ this is known to work.
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