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From: jgm@K.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (John Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: VMS pointer problems continue.
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Date: 25 Mar 88 15:34:03 GMT
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In article <1494@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM> rns@se-sd.sandiego.NCR.COM (Rick Schubert) writes:
:>Although Richard A. O'Keefe has pointed out the primary error in this
:>program, and probably the one that caused Mike Ayers' problem, there is
:>another error, although most implementations of C will handle it in the
:>intended way (notice that I did not say "the right way").  The string
:>pointed to by b ("Arf!") should be considered local to wr(); the compiler
:>is free to allocate it on the stack [...]

Wrong.  String constants have storage class "static" according to K&R
Appendix A, section 2.5.  Please check your references before you post.

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