Re: possible memory leak?


Roman Mashak wrote:
> Thanks to all for replies.
>
>
> What's wrong with the code like this (code in original post gets dumped at
> *sp++ = '\0' statement, so I decided to simplify a little):
>
> char *s = "abcde"; /* s point to 'a' character */
> *s = 'A'; /* replace 'a' with 'A' */
> s++; /* move pointer to 'b' */
>

http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q1.32.html

You shouldn't modify string literals, such as
"abcde". Make a copy first, or do something like this:

char s[] = "abcde";

-David

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