On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:57:15 +0100 Jurjen Middendorp wrote: > If you do char *p = "something", you can't write to that string (it's > a pointer into some stringtable: easy way to look at it :). You have > to use char p[] = "something", then it's an array with enough storage > to write to :) maybe try something like char scrollname[NUMSCROLLS][]; ?
Thank you and Martin for your very helpful comments! You have a point there: the compiler might put the strings themselves into a read-only table and keep only the pointers to them, as declared. I didn't think of that. Do you happen to know what linker section gcc-4.x puts strings into? I thought I'd clean up that code declaring a real struct like: struct scrollname_s { int active; char name[] = "..."; }; then name could stay read-only. OTOH I found numerous larn versions, so keeping ours "compatible" might keep maintenance costs down. -c _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"