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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: relearning C: why does an in-place change to a char* segfault?
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 17:46:05 -0700
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James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:

> Just as 1 is an integer literal whose value cannot be modified,
> [...]

The C language doesn't have integer literals.  C has string
literals, and compound literals, and it has integer constants.
But C does not have integer literals.