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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: String assignments
Message-ID: <10193@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 3 May 89 10:21:51 GMT
References: <2747@buengc.BU.EDU> <13721@steinmetz.ge.com> <1814@leah.Albany.Edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1814@leah.Albany.Edu> rds95@leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals) writes:
>But what if the compiler decides that ``somestring'' has finished it's
>duty to the program, and overwrites the space it took with something else?

We call that a "compiler bug".  Strings have static storage duration;
so long as one is still validly accessible via a pointer, it has to
remain intact.