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From: Johanne Fairchild <jfairchild@tudado.org>
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Subject: storage of string literals
Date: Sat, 11 May 2024 07:57:55 -0300
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I don't think the standard says anything about where a string literal
would be allocated.  Could a compiler allocate on the stack string
literals defined inside a procedure?  (Can I say that ``string
literals'' are /defined/ or should use a different word?)  So that, for
instance, when the procedure dealWord (below) returns, token->category
would point nowhere.

--8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---
typedef struct Token stoken;

struct Token {
  char *category;
};

void dealWord(stoken *token) {
  token->category = "cat1";
  [...]
}
--8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---

Section 6.2.4 of C99 has title ``storage durations of objects''.  Point
4 says

  --8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---
  An object whose identifier is declared with no linkage and without the
  storage-class specifier static has automatic storage duration.
  --8<-------------------------------------------------------->8---

Are string literals objects?  Thanks!