From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject: Re: Is this a bug ??? or feature ??
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:23:18 +0200
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John M. Aldrich wrote:
[...]
> However, I must say again that you should NOT overwrite string constants
> without a good reason; it's terrible programming.  Unless this is the
> exact intent of whatever project you are working on, there must be a
> better way to do what you want.  If you describe your goals, maybe we
> can suggest something.
> 
Hmm, maybe I don't get the point here, but I frequently do things like

char inifile[256]="foo.bar";

and in a parse routine with getopt
  
 switch( c=getopt(argc, argv, "n:")){
   case 'n':  strcpy(inifile, optarg);
	      break;
  ...

Is this one of the rare occasions where char[] and *char are
quite different things?

-- 
Ciao
Tom

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