string assignment in C

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <9710 at haddock.ima.isc.com> karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
-True in K&R C, but fixed in dpANS: "Identical string literals ... need not be
-distinct.  If the program attempts to modify a string literal ... the behavior
-is undefined." [3.1.4]  "This specification allows implementations to share
-copies of [identical] strings." [R3.1.4]

True.  I was thinking of string-literal initialized char arrays,
not pointers to string literals.  Sorry.