stevengs

I thought string literals like "yadda yadda" were always constant (of type const char[])? The nature of a string literal. Or is that just in C++?

EDIT: Ok, I found it. in (ISO) C, as you said, string literals are of type char [], but are unmodifiable. Attempting to modify a string literal results in undefined behavior. In (ISO) C++, the type is const char [] from the get go. I find this more sympathetic

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DaWei

No compiler can force write protection without intimate arrangements and cooperation with system software. That is strictly implementation specific, despite what standards may or may not state. Nor can it successfully declare your memory writable if I stuff ROM in the appropriate slots.

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