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From: mat@mole-end.UUCP (Mark A Terribile)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: String assignments; Was: When is a cast not a cast?
Summary: "... and the storage class >static<"
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Date: 4 May 89 07:22:10 GMT
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> > | 7	c = "somestring";  /* Nothing fancy, null-terminated. */
 
> Now I always thought this kind of thing was extremely bad form, ... But what
> if the compiler decides that ``somestring'' has finished its duty to the
> program, and overwrites the space it took with something else? ...

> Have I been misguided all this time?


Both K&R-I and K&R-II, in the appendices, under the heading ``String
Constants'', declare that a string has the storage class  static , which
means that the lifetime of the object is the lifetime of the program.

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From mole-end				Mark Terribile