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Re: literal string type

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: literal string type
Date 2017-09-28 19:12 +0100
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> writes:
<snip>
> A string literal has type non-const char *

Strictly speaking they have array type, not pointer type.  Expressions
with array type convert, in almost all cases, into pointers so you can
only tell the difference in a few special cases.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.

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literal string type Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-09-28 07:41 -0700
  Re: literal string type Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-09-28 07:50 -0700
    Re: literal string type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-09-28 19:12 +0100
  Re: literal string type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-09-28 09:08 -0700
    Re: literal string type Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-09-28 10:19 -0700
      Re: literal string type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-09-28 11:06 -0700
        Re: literal string type Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2017-09-28 11:41 -0700

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