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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: (So-Called) ANSI C
Message-ID: <2124@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 88 00:24:50 GMT
References: <4668@pyr.gatech.EDU> <2046@haddock.ISC.COM> <400@uniq.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <400@uniq.UUCP> dfm@uniq.UUCP (Meyer) writes:
>... there was an implementation where string constants were put in read-only
>(text??) memory, and changing them produced [some fault].  ...
>Since then, I have never assumed that I could write into a literal.

I've always considered it atrocious to do so, but the fact is that K&R did
explicitly allow it (why!?), and so any pre-ANSI implementation that put
string literals into read-only memory would have to be judged "broken".

The new rule is a Quiet Change, but it doesn't bother me a bit.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint