On Nov 15, 2007 2:43 AM, kevin liu <lwtbenben@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > while pointer name doesn't have its memory. Don't you confuse char *foo = "bar"; with char *foo; strcpy(foo, "bar"); ? The first needs *no* runtime memory allocation, as it was pointed out. The second does need runtime memory allocation, and as such is a bug. The code you point out belongs to the first category. Vincent Pelletier _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb