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Denis Vlasenko writes:
> char p;
> int main() {
> p = "";
> return 0;
> }
This is odd code: you're assigning a pointer to a string to a char
variable.
> Don't you think that "" should end up in rw data?
No: it's a literal string. Many, many years ago, C compilers put
literal strings into read/write memory and it was possible to alter
them, but C89 outlawed that practice.
Andrew.
