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Re: string constants
- To: brahmaiah vallabhaneni <vbrahmaiah at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: string constants
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 26 Dec 2000 16:02:39 -0200
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <20001226144310.14228.qmail@web3104.mail.yahoo.com>
On Dec 26, 2000, brahmaiah vallabhaneni <vbrahmaiah@yahoo.com> wrote:
> But if I make
> p as static char *p, it should work (guess).
Nope. You can't assume string literals are modifiable. The fact that
you have a pointer pointing to it doesn't make it writable.
If you declare p as a char[], then you'll get the array placed in
modifiable memory.
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