hello everybody,
consider the following statement,
char *s = "someString ";
Does the above statement cause "someString " to be alloted a constant
memory space. What I mean is can't we manipulate "someString " using
statements like
s[0] = 'a'; 6 1638
chandanlinster <ch************ @gmail.comwrote :
consider the following statement,
char *s = "someString ";
Does the above statement cause "someString " to be alloted a constant
memory space.
It might; implementations are allowed to make this choice for
themselves.
What I mean is can't we manipulate "someString " using
statements like
s[0] = 'a';
No. Not portably, at least, although some implementations offer the
ability to modify string literals as an extension.
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"chandanlinster " <ch************ @gmail.comwrite s:
consider the following statement,
char *s = "someString ";
Does the above statement cause "someString " to be alloted a constant
memory space. What I mean is can't we manipulate "someString " using
statements like
s[0] = 'a';
No, attempting to modify a string literal invokes undefined behavior.
(For historical reasons, string literals are not treated as "const";
attempting to modify one invokes UB because the standard says so
explicitly.)
Some implementations may allow you to do this. Don't.
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San Diego Supercomputer Center <* <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
Keith Thompson wrote:
"chandanlinster " <ch************ @gmail.comwrite s:
>>consider the following statement, char *s = "someString ";
Does the above statement cause "someString " to be alloted a constant memory space. What I mean is can't we manipulate "someString " using statements like
s[0] = 'a';
No, attempting to modify a string literal invokes undefined behavior.
(For historical reasons, string literals are not treated as "const";
attempting to modify one invokes UB because the standard says so
explicitly.)
But it's still worth declaring them as const.
--
Ian Collins.
Ian Collins <ia******@hotma il.comwrites:
Keith Thompson wrote:
>"chandanlinste r" <ch************ @gmail.comwrite s:
>>>consider the following statement, char *s = "someString ";
Does the above statement cause "someString " to be alloted a constant memory space. What I mean is can't we manipulate "someString " using statements like
s[0] = 'a';
No, attempting to modify a string literal invokes undefined behavior.
(For historical reasons, string literals are not treated as "const"; attempting to modify one invokes UB because the standard says so explicitly.)
But it's still worth declaring them as const.
Yes.
More pedantically, if you have an array whose initializer is a string
literal, it's a good idea to declare the array as const.
--
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.
Keith Thompson wrote:
Ian Collins <ia******@hotma il.comwrites:
>>Keith Thompson wrote:
>>>"chandanlins ter" <ch************ @gmail.comwrite s:
consider the following statement, char *s = "someString ";
Does the above statement cause "someString " to be alloted a constant memory space. What I mean is can't we manipulate "someString " using statement s like
s[0] = 'a';
No, attempting to modify a string literal invokes undefined behavior.
(For historical reasons, string literals are not treated as "const"; attempting to modify one invokes UB because the standard says so explicitly .) But it's still worth declaring them as const.
Yes.
More pedantically, if you have an array whose initializer is a string
literal, it's a good idea to declare the array as const.
Wouldn't that depend on the purpose of the array?
/* const ??? */ char devname[] = "/dev/pty?";
char *p = strchr(devname, '?');
char *q;
FILE *stream;
for (q = "abc"; *q != '\0'; ++q) {
*p = *q;
stream = fopen(devname, "r+");
if (stream != NULL)
return stream;
}
return NULL;
In my experience, an explicit array is initialized with a
string literal only when one *does* want to modify it; if one
does not, one simply uses the literal. Do you write
const char message[] = "Hello, world!";
puts (message);
or simply
puts ("Hello, world!");
?
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Eric Sosman <es*****@acm-dot-org.invalidwrit es:
Keith Thompson wrote:
[...]
>More pedantically, if you have an array whose initializer is a string literal, it's a good idea to declare the array as const.
Wouldn't that depend on the purpose of the array?
[snip]
Yes, sorry, I goofed.
If you have a *pointer* whose initializer is a string literal, you
should declare it as const:
const char *p = "hello";
If you have an *array*, declare it as const or not depending on how
you want to use it; the initializer is irrelevant:
char arr[] = "hello";
Here, the string literal is (logically) *copied* to the array. In the
first case, the pointer actually points to the string literal itself.
More precisely, the string literal causes an anonymous array of static
storage duration, just large enough to hold the sequence of
characters, to be created. The pointer points to this array. Any
attempt to modify the array invokes UB.
--
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San Diego Supercomputer Center <* <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
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