Re: Reset a string?

From: Adrian de los Santos (demonNOSPAM_at_demon.com.mx)
Date: 03/06/04 

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 14:00:34 -0600

On 2004-03-06 13:22:24 -0600, Tor Husabø <torhu@student.hf.uio.no> said:
> char *str does not become a constant! It's "hello" that is "constant"
> (in the sense that modifying it is has undefined behavior, even
> if it might work on your implementation).
>
> This is allowed, however:
>
> char other_string[] = "goodbye";
> char *str="hello";
> str = other_string;
>
> now str points to "goodbye", and "hello" is just wasted memory, since
> you dont have the address anymore.

Oh yea i read the faq, thanks a lot for pointing me there..

So, as the faq says

- A string literal can be:
   - An array initializer
   - An unamed static array of chars

So my question its:

if i declare:

char *myString="Whatever";

and later in the code:

myString="Another Static Array of chars";

the pointer value will be the same ?

i mean:

 "Another Static Array of chars" will start on the same memory address
than "Whatever" ?

Another questions

If i:

char *MyString1="Dog";
char *MyString2="Cat";

MyString1=Mystring2;

What happens with the initial memory referenced by MyString1 (Dog), it
remains on the memory (wasted memory) or it gets cleared in some way ?

Thanks for your helpful answers, im learning.

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