[osol-code] code works in sunstudio but not gcc

[girish]

Can someone please explain why this program works in sunstudio C compiler but 
seg faults in gcc:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int
main()
{
        char *ptr = "adam";

        strcpy(ptr, "eve");
        printf("%s\n", ptr);
}
 
 
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