Re: strings

From: .:'DevarajA':. (no_at_spam.com)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 09:45:12 GMT

"James Dennett" <jdennett@acm.org> wrote:
> .:'DevarajA':. wrote:
>
> > char *msg = "a string"; is there something wrong with this?
>
> Yes; it is not "const correct", in that you have set a
> char* to point at a const char.
>
> If after the declaration above you executed
>
> *msg = 'b';
>
> then you would have "undefined behavior"
>

sorry, maybe i've not understood...
If I executed it..., but I just need to have a string which can be read when
needed. The program doesn't modify it. In this case would it be correct?
I've also been told that char *msg = "aaa" writes the string aaa in a
random memory location, sometimes overwriting important data. Is it true?

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