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Steve Clamage (clamage@Eng.Sun.COM) wrote:
: krotoff@boy.rector.msu.su (Alexsander Krotoff) writes:

: >I have a questio: is it mentioned in the c++ draft standard are
: >string literals lvalues or not ? Is it possible to take an address
: >of string ?

: A string literal represents a null-terminated array of characters
: with static storage duration. When you write
: 	"abc"
: in an expression (except as the operand of sizeof), it is
: immediately converted to the address of the first char in the array
: which consists of 'a', 'b', 'c', '\0'.

: You cannot write &"abc", because that would be the address of an
: address, and has no meaning.

Thank you for respose.

The same rule is in the C, but in C it is legal to write:
char (*ca)[4] = &"abc";
since string is lvalue and the only requirement for `&' operand is
function designator or an lvalue that designates an object.
(ANSI C 3.3.3.2 "Address and indirection operators").

I am missing something ?
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