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From: al770@uunet!unhd (Anthony   Lapadula)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: C Question
Message-ID: <1989Dec15.211142.7509@uunet!unhd>
Date: 15 Dec 89 21:11:42 GMT
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This probably doesn't belong in this newsgroup any more than my last
posting ("he," "she," and "e"), but....


In some article Jeff Beadles wrote:
> 
> [in all of this, the use of "static" is optional. ]

Not if we are talking about local variables, which we are.


> char *fred = "Hello";
> 
> is IDENTICAL to
> 
> char fred[] = "Hello";

Not quite.  In the first case, a legal assignment would be
	fred = "Goodbye";			/* 'fred' now points to a different string */

This assignment fails in the second case.

-- Anthony (No Sig Needed) Lapadula