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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: relearning C: why does an in-place change to a char* segfault?
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2024 01:31:17 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 14:19:49 -0400, James Kuyper wrote:

> I've heard that in some other
> languages, if you call foo(3), and foo() changes the value of it's
> argument to 2, then subsequent calls to bar(3) will pass a value of 2 to
> bar(). That sounds like such a ridiculous mis-feature that I hesitate to
> identify which languages I had heard accused of having that feature ...

I heard that, too. I think it was on some early FORTRAN compilers, on 
early machine architectures, without stacks or reentrancy. And with the 
weird FORTRAN argument-passing conventions.