Are strings local?

[Duke Robillard]

In article <370 at scotty.UUCP> jwr at scotty.UUCP (Jim Reid) writes:
)In article <652 at m10ux.UUCP) rgr at m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard) writes:
)<main() 
)<{
)<	char *p;
)<      /* or, if you'd like to be even more obscure... */
)<	(p= "def")[2]= 'x';
)<	printf("%s\n", p);   /* this will print "abx\n" */
                                                 ^^^typo
)<}

)I tried it on my system(SUN 3/75 with SUN UNIX 4.2 release 3.5) &
)got "dex" where you got "abx".

    My typo--"dex" is the weird thing I got, too.

    Like they same in /usr/games/fortune, "Make sure the comments
match the code."
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