From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Is this a bug ??? or feature ??
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:49:50 +0000
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Guan Foo Wah wrote:
> 
> Can anyone please tell me how to make those three variables not to
> share
> the same memory location ?? This is important in my project which I am
> currently working on.

I should add to what's already been posted that string constants should
not generally be modified.  I don't know if this is ANSI or not, but
it's definitely unwise, due to exactly what you've encountered: 
different compilers optimize string constants in different ways. 
Well-written code should never attempt to overwrite them unless there's
some desperately overriding need.

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