q for the C hackers

[Kevin D. Clark]

David Long <dave at jumpshift.com> writes:

> Also, for strings the C standard requires each literal
> string constant to occupy unique read/write storage (in case the code
> decides to rewrite part of it).

ANSI C allows the implementation to store duplicate strings in the
same memory location at runtime.

--kevin (the compiler guy)
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