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From: arrom@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: char *Foo  VS.  char Bar[]
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Date: 14 Apr 89 18:04:17 GMT
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Reply-To: arrom@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee (600.429))
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Modifying a string literal is legal in pre-ANSI versions of C and not
necessarily so in ANSI versions.  Thus, neither MSC nor gcc was wrong.

Source: K&RII, page 194.

char *foo="   " is a pointer to a string literal. char bar[size]="   " is an
array, which gets initialized to the requested contents. 
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