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From: jackg@hpisoa2.HP.COM (Jack Gerson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: uPort 1.3 cc static char *
Message-ID: <1120001@hpisoa2.HP.COM>
Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 18:17:15 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 17 18:17:15 1987
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> / hpisoa2:comp.unix.xenix / jrb@petro.UUCP (Jon Boede) /  5:51 am  Nov 16, 1987 /
> I sent some code over to an AT running Microport XENIX 1.3 ... when using the
> -Ml (large) model the following crashed and burned...
> 
> main()
> {
> 	char *a_pointer;
> 
> 	a_pointer = "some static data";
> 
> 	puts(a_pointer);
> }
> 
> However, when I change a_pointer to "static char *a_pointer" it works.  Why?
> 
> Thanks,
> Jon
> -- 
> Jon Boede	...!{gatech,ihnp4,ssbn,swrinde,tness1,utanes}!petro!jrb
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> ----------

You didn't allocate memory for your character array, so it's no surprise
your process crashed.

How did you do the static allocation?  If you said

	static char *a_pointer = "some static data"

your declaration itself allocated space for the array.