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From: ark@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Local string storage -- *guaranteed* static?
Message-ID: <6947@alice.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 09:42:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: alice.6947
Posted: Thu Jun  4 09:42:07 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 08:30:49 EDT
References: <7690@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <7690@brl-adm.ARPA>, gea@Juliet.Caltech.EDU writes:
-> Someone asked whether strings in functions like
-> 
-> func() {
->     char *str = "some string";
->     ...
->     return(str);
-> }
-> 
-> are static, and several people affirmed that they were, but without
-> any evidence.

K&R, page 181:

	"A string has type ``array of characters'' and storage class `static'
	and is initialized with the given characters."