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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: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 21:27:16 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sun, 04 Aug 2024 23:38:14 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

> 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?

Hint: you have to know something about executable formats.