I often hear it advised to avoid using enum with arrays because they will allocate at the usage point, but does this also apply to strings? strings are arrays, so naively it seems that they would, but that seems odd to me. I would imagine string literals end up in the data segment as they are immutable.

As a continuation of this question, I know that string literals have an implicit null delimiter, so it should be correct to pass a "literal".ptr to a function taking a C-string, and presumably this still applies when using enum. However, if enum implies allocation at the usage point for strings, one would be better served with static, meaning one would need to be explicit: static foo = "bar\0"?

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