On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > "Manish Katiyar" <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 13-08-08 02:57, Peter Teoh wrote: >>> >>>> But since u have assigned it to the same address of NAME, it will always >>>> print HELLO world. So the whole thing has nothing got to do with >>>> optimization (gcc -O0 to disable it, which is also default). >>> >>> Can y'all please just listen to Johannes? It definitely does. We have: >>> >>>> int main() >>>> { >>>> char *p_name = "santosh"; >>>> char *q_name = "santosh"; >>> >>> It is unspecified whether or not the compiler will allocate one or two >>> copies of the character sequence "santosh" and therefore whether or not >>> p_name != q_name; >> >> Refer to below link ...... first bullet clearly says that gcc will >> store only one copy if strings are identical. >> >> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-3.4.6/gcc/Incompatibilities.html > > gcc is one compiler out of many. While gcc might always collapse them, > others might not always or never at all do so. Yeah... I completely agree :-) ... the output will be compiler dependant.......was just saying that if you use gcc you are guaranteed to get the same address. > > Hannes > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ