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Re: Placement of string literals

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From: John Winters
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 1995 18:43
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In article <1995Sep4.123536.3152@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>,
Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>To look at it another way, the two definitions above could be
>reimplemented as:
>
>const char __foo[] = {'H','e','l','l','o',' ','w','o','r','l','d','\0'};
>char *foo;
>foo = (char *) __foo;
>
>const char __bar[] = {'H','e','l','l','o',' ','w','o','r','l','d','\0'};
>const char *bar;
>bar = (const char *) __bar;

Or indeed, as :

const char __foo[] = {'H','e','l','l','o',' ','w','o','r','l','d','\0'};
char *foo;
const char *bar;
foo = (char *) __foo;
bar = (const char *) __foo;

John
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John Winters.  Wallingford, Oxon, England.
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From: john@polo.demon.co.uk (John Winters)
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Subject: Re: Placement of string literals
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 18:43:10 GMT
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