char *str1="amit";
char str2[]="mehta"
strcat(str1,str 2);
It will crash, I feel str1 will be stored in code section. Once memory
is allocated, you cannot change or append into this.
Please correct me If I am wrong.. 10 1943
Amit wrote: char *str1="amit"; char str2[]="mehta" strcat(str1,str 2);
It will crash, I feel str1 will be stored in code section. Once memory is allocated, you cannot change or append into this.
Please correct me If I am wrong..
You're close.
The rules of C say that
an attempt to write to an object identified by a string literal,
causes undefined behavior.
str1 points to an object identified by a string literal.
Also, you need to make sure you have enough room for strcat.
char *str1 = "amit";
char str2[sizeof "amit" - 1 + sizeof "mehta"] = "mehta";
strcat(str2, str1);
--
pete
Amit wrote: char *str1="amit"; char str2[]="mehta" strcat(str1,str 2);
It will crash, I feel str1 will be stored in code section. Once memory is allocated, you cannot change or append into this.
Please correct me If I am wrong..
I thing it is wrong because
str1 has the address of the value amit
u have to strcat(*str1,st r2)
venkatesh wrote: Amit wrote: char *str1="amit"; char str2[]="mehta" strcat(str1,str 2);
It will crash, I feel str1 will be stored in code section. Once memory is allocated, you cannot change or append into this.
Please correct me If I am wrong..
I thing it is wrong because str1 has the address of the value amit u have to strcat(*str1,st r2)
Get yourself to a compiler and try your idea.
You're very wrong.
*str1 is an expression of type char with a value of 'a',
refering to a byte in a nonwriteable object.
The first argument to strcat must be a pointer to a string
in a writable object that has enough space for the resulting
concatenated string.
--
pete
Amit wrote: char *str1="amit"; char str2[]="mehta" strcat(str1,str 2);
It will crash, I feel str1 will be stored in code section. Once memory is allocated, you cannot change or append into this.
Please correct me If I am wrong..
Errors abound, crash or not.
char *str1 = "amit";
This defines "amit" a string constant and assigns its address to str1.
The string constant is perhaps not writeable.
char str2[] = "mehta";
This defines "mehta" a string constant and assigns the string itself to
the array. The type of str2 is now 'array 6 of char'. str2 belongs to
you and is writeable.
strcat(str1, str2);
This might 'work' but cannot be correct. The memory at the end of str1
is not yours.
--
Joe Wright
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
--- Albert Einstein ---
"Amit" <am************ @gmail.com> writes: char *str1="amit"; char str2[]="mehta" strcat(str1,str 2);
It will crash, I feel str1 will be stored in code section. Once memory is allocated, you cannot change or append into this.
Please correct me If I am wrong..
The language doesn't define where str1 is stored; it could be carved
into stone tablets.
str1 is a pointer to the array created by the string literal "amit1".
Attempting to write to that array, or attempting to read or write
beyond the end of the array, invokes undefined behavior.
The strcat() call will crash *if you're lucky*. If you're unlucky, it
will seem to work. That's the nature of undefined behavior.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keit h) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
Amit wrote: char *str1="amit"; char str2[]="mehta" strcat(str1,str 2);
It will crash, I feel str1 will be stored in code section. Once memory is allocated, you cannot change or append into this.
Please correct me If I am wrong..
Well You are right your program will crash.
Your str1 is assigned to string "amit" when you do strcat() your
progam may not find enough space to append the str2[]. so a SIGSEGV (I
hope) will occour.
This is generally not noticed for small strings. but if your second
string is large enough then you will get SIGSEGV.
On 16 Oct 2005 02:04:32 -0700, "Das" <as*********@gm ail.com> wrote in
comp.lang.c: Amit wrote: char *str1="amit"; char str2[]="mehta" strcat(str1,str 2);
It will crash, I feel str1 will be stored in code section. Once memory is allocated, you cannot change or append into this.
Please correct me If I am wrong.. Well You are right your program will crash.
No, he and you are both wrong. Maybe the program will crash, maybe it
wall cause "The Star Spangled Banner" to play from the speakers on
your computer, even if your computer does not have speakers.
Your str1 is assigned to string "amit" when you do strcat() your progam may not find enough space to append the str2[]. so a SIGSEGV (I hope) will occour.
Accuracy is highly prized in this group, please do not post answers
when you do not know what you are talking about.
The object 'str1' in the OP's sample code is pointing to a string
literal. Attempting to modify a string literal, such as by passing it
as the destination argument to strcat(), produces undefined behavior
because the C standard specifically says that it does. It has nothing
at all to do with how much space there is.
Once you generate undefined behavior, you no longer have a C program.
The language does not know and does not car what happens next.
This is generally not noticed for small strings. but if your second string is large enough then you will get SIGSEGV.
"generally not noticed" by whom? It is undefined behavior, pure and
simple, and what happens afterwards is not a C language issue and is
not really topical here.
What your particular compiler or platform does is not what defines the
C language.
--
Jack Klein
Home: http://JK-Technology.Com
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In this case , according to ANSI C standard the string literal becomes
the part of read only memory, most obvious the datasection. So the
nature of the char * str actually becomes const char *str1... so you
cant write into it.
"CoL" <ap***********@ gmail.com> writes: In this case , according to ANSI C standard the string literal becomes the part of read only memory, most obvious the datasection. So the nature of the char * str actually becomes const char *str1... so you cant write into it.
One more time. Please provide context when you post a followup.
If you want to post a followup via groups.google.c om, don't use
the broken "Reply" link at the bottom of the article. Click on
"show options" at the top of the article, then click on the
"Reply" at the bottom of the article headers.
Please complain to Google about their broken interface.
String literals in C are not of type const char*. A string literal is
an array of char (not const); in most contexts, it's implicitly
converted to char* (again, not const). Modifying a string literal is
undefined behavior because the standard specifically says it's
undefined behavior.
It might have made more sense for string literals to be const
(<OT>they are in C++</OT>), but they aren't.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keit h) ks***@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
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