Scoping question in C

[Peter]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, William Park wrote:

> I have question regarding scope of static string inside C function.
> Suppose I have
>
>    char *x;
>
>    int func ()
>    {
> 	x = "something";
> 	return (1);
>    }
>
> where 'x' is global variable being used elsewhere.  Can I use 'x' after
> func() exits?  That is, is 'x' still pointing to string "something"?

Yes, the literal string is allocated as static initialised data by the 
compiler at compile time.

Peter
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