Lpc2000

At 09:08 PM 10/18/05 +0000, Guillermo Prandi wrote:
>Actually:
>
>char *f = "Hello";
>
>Left "Hello" in the ROM area. Whilst:
>
>char f[] = "Hello";
>
>Left "Hello" in the RAM area (after copying from ROM, of course).
>
>Guille

I rather suspect that's an allowed interpretation of the standard 
then.  GCC is quite good about that.  It certainly follows the practice of 
some UNIX compilers.  Unfortunately that's a non-obvious type pun.

Thankfully lint (PC-Lint) catches it (although as a C++, not a C error, 
Makes sense; AIUI the type of a string literal is different in the two 
languages.)

char *f = "test";
e:\cygwin\home\radsett\newlib-lpc\test11.c  33  Info 1776: Converting a string
     literal to char * is not const safe (initialization)

Thanks, another hole in my knowledge corrected.

Robert


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