Re: I'm sorry...

[Manish Vachharajani <mvachhar vger rutgers edu>]

On Mon, 30 Nov 1998 sml13@cornell.edu wrote:

> Good point...BUT, this dies too:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <string.h>
> 
> void main() {
>     char* var = "hey you";
> 
>     printf ("%s\n", strtok (var, " "));
> }
> 
> shane

This is no different, the pointer var still points to a constant string.
strtok dereferences the pointer and tries to write to the
dereferenced memory, which is read only.

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