Wrong code generation for literal (constant) wide-characters strings

[plzombie]

Reproducible with nt/nt64 compiler (Both debug and release) with this a3d9dea build (Last updated 2025-01-07 03:19:56 UTC)

Compile this snippet as a console windows app (either debug or release)
Run something like test_ow_codegen_failure.exe -layered
You would get message Warning: argument -layered can be set only with -bw
Desired behaviour: nothing should be printed. This code branch should be performed:

flags.type = DEPRESS_PAGE_TYPE_LAYERED;
flags.param1 = 3;
flags.param2 = 2;

[jmalak]

Please specify compile and link commands.
I supposed host is 64-bit Windows and OW is properly configured.

[plzombie]

Here are compile commands

wcc386 main.c -w4 -e25 -zq -od -d2 -6r -bt=nt -fo=.obj -mf
wlink name test_ow_codegen_failure d all sys nt op m op maxe=25 op q file main.obj

Anyway it's default directives from Open Watcom IDE for Debug build.

[jmalak]

It looks like mistake in wide-characters strings handling.

[jmalak]

As the workaround you can use in the source file at the beginning

#pragma off (reuse_duplicate_strings)

Of cause it will be fixed.