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From: hoodr@syscube.csus.edu (Robert Hood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Whats wrong?
Message-ID: <1989Nov29.014513.21386@csusac.csus.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 89 01:45:13 GMT
Reply-To: hoodr@syscube.csus.edu (Robert Hood)
Organization: California State University: Sacramento
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I ran into a little problem. I have this piece of code that works on all
the Unix boxes I could try, *EXCEPT* the NeXT:

#include <stdio.h>
struct test {
    char *temp;
    int temp2;
    };

struct test demo = { "this are a test", 4};
main ()
	{
	puts (demo.temp);
	*demo.temp = '*';
	puts (demo.temp);
	}

Its a very simple piece of code that replaces the first character with an
'*'.  It produces:

this are a test
Bus error

Why?  Am I missing a compiler option somewhere? (I just used 'cc test.c')

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