string variables and literals

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Aug 31, 2000, Eric Lemings <elemings@uswest.net> wrote:

> Just as s3 was initialized with a copy of its string literal,
> shouldn't s4 be intialized with the location of a copy of the string
> literal placed in some arbitrary part of writable memory?

No, it shouldn't.  But it might, if someone contributes a patch to
assign strings stored in pointers to non-const char to writable
memory.  I don't know how hard it would be to do it.

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