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From: dennisg@kgw2.UUCP (Dennis Glatting)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Whats wrong?
Summary: standard problem
Message-ID: <124@kgw2.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 89 12:52:41 GMT
References: <1989Nov29.014513.21386@csusac.csus.edu>
Organization: Xetron Corp, Cincinnati Ohio
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In article <1989Nov29.014513.21386@csusac.csus.edu>, hoodr@syscube.csus.edu (Robert Hood) writes:
> 
> 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')
> 


that doesn't supprise me.  your string is probably const data.  which means
its in a memory segment that can't be written to.  if i remember correctly
there is a switch on the compiler that says to make strings writable.



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