char *Foo VS. char Bar[]

[Ken Arromdee]

Modifying a string literal is legal in pre-ANSI versions of C and not
necessarily so in ANSI versions.  Thus, neither MSC nor gcc was wrong.

Source: K&RII, page 194.

char *foo="   " is a pointer to a string literal. char bar[size]="   " is an
array, which gets initialized to the requested contents. 
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