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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: relearning C: why does an in-place change to a char* segfault?
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 23:38:14 -0700
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
> On Sat, 03 Aug 2024 19:58:37 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
>>> On Sat, 03 Aug 2024 17:07:37 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:
>>>
>>>> ... general compression isn't something I've seen ...
>>>
>>> I recall Apple had a patent on some aspects of the “PEF” executable
>>> format that they created for their PowerPC machines running old MacOS.
>>> This had to do with some clever instruction encodings for loading stuff
>>> into memory.
>> 
>> Is that relevant to what I asked about?
>
> “Compression”

Was that intended to be responsive?

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */