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From: art@pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Is this ok??
Message-ID: <1991Mar09.092611.24821@pilikia.pegasus.com>
Date: 9 Mar 91 09:26:11 GMT
References: <DAVIS.91Mar6213546@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <DAVIS.91Mar6213546@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> davis@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu  (John E. Davis) writes:
>Hi,
>
>   The following code works on sun4 and ultrix but crashes on VMS.  Just when
>I thought I understood pointers.....

After seeing lots of replies to John Davis I went back and examined the
program he posted again and realized I was wrong regarding his pointer
usage, I sorta jumped the gun when I saw the &'s and ** stuff, I was
wrong. I still don't think it's OK to assign the quoted string "Hello\n"
to *s in fm2() as shown below.  Where does *s point to ?  Where in storage
would "Hello\n" reside ?  Does the compiler assign some scratch storage or 
something for it ??

>#include <stdio.h>
>void fm2(s)
>char **s;
>{
>    *s = "Hello\n";
>}
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