Re: why debug step by step, it s ok

"Emmanuel Delahaye" <emdel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Robert Gamble wrote on 04/06/05 :
>> I thought about clarifying that but decided not to assuming that the
>> "without invoking undefined behavior" part was implied and trying not
>> to be too pedantic as I know what Emmanuel meant ;)
>
> Ok, I rephrase it:
>
> "The C langage doesn't guarantee that a string literal is mutable".

Another way to put it is that you can't go wrong assuming that string
literals are immutable.

That's not quite true if you're trying to figure out why code that
modifies a string literal *seems* to be working, but it's a good rule
for writing new code.

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