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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: relearning C: why does an in-place change to a char* segfault?
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Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
> James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
>
>> Just as 1 is an integer literal whose value cannot be modified,
>> [...]
>
> The C language doesn't have integer literals.  C has string
> literals, and compound literals, and it has integer constants.
> But C does not have integer literals.

Technically correct (but IMHO not really worth worrying about).

There is a proposal for C2y, authored by Jens Gustedt, to change the
term "constant" to "literal" for character, integer, and floating
constants.  (I think it's a good idea.)

<https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3239.htm>

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */