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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: Sat, 03 Aug 2024 17:07:37 -0700
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David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
[...]
> "this is a test" is a string literal, and is typically part of the
> program's image.  (There are some C implementations that do things
> differently, like storing such initialisation data in a compressed
> format.)
[...]

What implementations do that?  Typically data that's all zeros isn't
stored in the image, but general compression isn't something I've seen
(not that I've paid much attention).  It would save space in the image,
but it would require decompression at load time and wouldn't save any
space at run time.

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