Michael Gong wrote:
Though it's not related with gcc, could anyone help me with following
question:
Where is the string literal allocated ? Is it on the stack ?
For example, where is "abc" allocated ?
char * foo() {
return "abc";
}
It can't be on the stack in this case, because if it was, it would cease
to exist when foo() returns.
AFAIK string literals all live in the read-only data segment (.text?).
(Your prototype is wrong, btw; you are casting a const char * that lives
in read-only memory to a char *, which is just *ASKING* for your program
to SEGV at some point.)
--
Matthew
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