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From: chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Whats wrong?
Message-ID: <1989Nov29.072855.4018@nueces.cactus.org>
Date: 29 Nov 89 07:28:55 GMT
References: <1989Nov29.014513.21386@csusac.csus.edu>
Organization: Nueces Inc.
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hoodr@syscube.csus.edu (Robert Hood) writes:

>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:

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

>this are a test
>Bus error

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

Yes you are. You need the "fwritable-strings" option to gcc to allow
you to alter a string constant like you have above. This is a very
useful flag when you are porting since this is such a common practice.

Chris

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