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From: Prem Mallappa <prem_mallappa@hotpop.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] constant string
Date: Mon,  8 Mar 2004 10:15:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2004.03.07.05.32.00.621137@hotpop.com> (raw)

hi,

this is my program
------------------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
	char *s = "Hello";
	
	s[2] = 'z';
	
	printf ("%s\n", s);
	
	return 0;
}

------------------------------------------

my question is when i compile this in Linux (gcc) i get a segmentation 
fault at the second statement of main(),
As far as my knowledge i think this is because in 2nd chapter of K&R book
it is being mentioned that
' any thing enclosed between " and " is a string constant' so here i am
changing a constant, and i get a segmentation fault ( and i also noticed
that gcc stores the string Hello in read-only datasegment)

but when i compile the same thing in plan9 C compiler ( both native "8c"
and "pcc" i get a output of "Hezlo")
why this is happenning..

sorry if i am posting to wrong group,
thanks in advance
prem


             reply	other threads:[~2004-03-08 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-08 10:15 Prem Mallappa [this message]
2004-03-08 10:27 ` lucio
2004-03-08 10:53 ` [9fans] " Richard Bos
2004-03-08 14:13 ` [9fans] " dbailey27
2004-03-08 15:22   ` C H Forsyth
2004-03-09  3:41     ` Russ Cox
2004-03-09  9:17       ` Charles Forsyth
2004-03-08 22:40 ` William Josephson
2004-03-10  9:47 ` [9fans] " Peter Pichler
2004-03-12  8:56   ` Bruce Ellis

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