On Tuesday 11 October 2005 22:28, Jim Bauer wrote: > It is the string that is constant, not the pointer. > So, when you declare it a pointer and a string constant are created, and the pointer is initialised to the address of the string constant. But later you can assign a new value to the pointer so that it points at someother string. But the original string constant is still sitting there in memory but not being referenced. Is that it? Thanks, Felix -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
