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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: strings no longer writable?
Message-ID: <14274@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 29 Oct 90 22:41:42 GMT
References: <1990Oct29.174410.28498@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Oct29.174410.28498@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> lijewski@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Mike Lijewski) writes:
>My understanding is that strings are no longer writable.

They never have been guaranteed to be writable.

>Is a conforming implementation required to issue a warning, an error, or
>what?

The standard says, "If the program attempts to modify a string literal of
either form, the behavior is undefined."  A diagnostic message is not
required; in fact, some implementations may support this operation as a
conforming extension.