Thread: replace the "*" in the above string with " ", a single space character using ANSI C??

Originally Posted by Smiley10

obaid's code is modifying a string literal too which are constant.

Why are there no standard restrictions on modifying string literals?

In trivial cases, it would be possible for the compiler to detect it, but in anything but trivial cases (e.g. when a function takes a char * as a parameter, and that char * happens to be a pointer to a literal).

It's not just obaid's code that does so, by the way, several of the other examples do too. Maxorators doesn't - but it also doesn't match the original poster's question - and by the way, we haven't seen any post from the OP for a while.... Perhaps the lesson ended? :-)

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Mats

Originally Posted by matsp

In trivial cases, it would be possible for the compiler to detect it, but in anything but trivial cases (e.g. when a function takes a char * as a parameter, and that char * happens to be a pointer to a literal).

It's not just obaid's code that does so, by the way, several of the other examples do too. Maxorators doesn't - but it also doesn't match the original poster's question - and by the way, we haven't seen any post from the OP for a while.... Perhaps the lesson ended? :-)

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Mats

Thank you.