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From: James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: relearning C: why does an in-place change to a char* segfault?
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:33:03 -0400
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Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
> James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
>
>> Just as 1 is an integer literal whose value cannot be modified,
>> [...]
>
> The C language doesn't have integer literals.  C has string
> literals, and compound literals, and it has integer constants.
> But C does not have integer literals.

True, but C++ does, and it means the same thing by "integer literal"
that C means by "integer constant". C doesn't define the term "integer
literal" with any conflicting meaning, and my use of the C++ terminology
allowed me to make the parallel with string literals clearer, so I don't
see any particular problem with my choice of words.