Are strings local?

[Duke Robillard]

In article <12791 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes...
...an explaination of my string dilemma.  Thanks to Chris and everyone
else who helped me out.

During my search about this locality of statics business, I discovered
a pretty bizarre thing about strings.  I dunno if it's just my System
V compiler or what, but you can write to strings (since they're just
static arrays of characters?) Like:

main() 
{
	char *p;

	p= "abc";
	p[2]= 'd';
	printf("%s\n", p);   /* this will print "abd\n" */

        /* or, if you'd like to be even more obscure... */
	(p= "def")[2]= 'x';
	printf("%s\n", p);   /* this will print "abx\n" */
}

Pretty weird, huh?


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