From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Is this a bug ??? or feature ??
Date: 14 Oct 1997 21:07:46 GMT
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On Mon, 13 Oct 1997 09:20:45 GMT in comp.os.msdos.djgpp Guan Foo Wah (djgpp AT rocketmail DOT com) wrote:

: From the program output compiled on the DJGPP compiler, it seems that
: num[0], num[1] and id[2] share the same location memory. Why is this
: so ??

It's optimising your strings. People always complain about large exe file
sizes... now you're complaining about efficiency ;). I think I'm right in
saying that reusing strings in this way is optional for a compiler;
clearly djgpp does it and bc does not. I think there is a command line
option to turn this behaviour off; look in the info docs.

: This time, num[1], and id[2] share the same memory location.
: 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.

If you allocate them dynamically, of course, they'll all point at
different copies of the string. E.g.:

char one[] = "one";

char *(num[3]);

...
for (i=0;i<3;i++) { num[i] = strdup (one); }

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George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford