What does Z["ack"] = 5 mean?

[Thomas Hameenaho]

In article <14999 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU> laba-3aw at web.berkeley.edu (Sam Shen) writes:
#Exactly what does this mean:
#
#main()
#{
#	char Z;
#
#	Z["ack!"] = 5;
#}
#

#Worse yet, the executable produced by gcc core dumps.  Oh, by the way, this
#is all on a Sun-3/50.
#


The problem in the gcc case is that gcc puts strings in the text segment and
text is normally read-only.

Our gcc/cc for 68k also doesn't initialize Z to anything useful, it just grabs
what happens to be on the stack.
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