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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: Mon, 12 Aug 2024 14:11:47 -0700
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

[...]

> A string literal creates an array object with static storage
> duration.  [...]

A small quibble.  Every string literal does sit in an array,
but it might not be a _new_ array, because different string
literals are allowed to overlap as long as the bytes in the
overlapping arrays have the right values.