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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: string assignment in C
Message-ID: <8708@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 20 Oct 88 09:58:40 GMT
References: <1988Oct11.143728.28627@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <6777@chinet.chi.il.us> <1414@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <790@paris.ics.uci.edu> <8696 <9710@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <9710@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
-True in K&R C, but fixed in dpANS: "Identical string literals ... need not be
-distinct.  If the program attempts to modify a string literal ... the behavior
-is undefined." [3.1.4]  "This specification allows implementations to share
-copies of [identical] strings." [R3.1.4]

True.  I was thinking of string-literal initialized char arrays,
not pointers to string literals.  Sorry.