string constants

[Alexandre Oliva]

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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