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From: eht@f.word.cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Whats wrong?
Message-ID: <7132@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 29 Nov 89 13:48:01 GMT
References: <1989Nov29.014513.21386@csusac.csus.edu>
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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In article <1989Nov29.014513.21386@csusac.csus.edu> hoodr@syscube.csus.edu (Robert Hood) writes:
>
>struct test demo = { "this are a test", 4};
>	*demo.temp = '*';
>Bus error
>

Did you compile with -fwritable-strings?  Strictly speaking, you are trying
to change a string constant.
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Eric H. Thayer      School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
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