Scoping question in C

[G. Matthew Rice]

John Vetterli <jvetterli-zC6tqtfhjqE at public.gmane.org> writes:
> (*) I think there's a way to get gcc to put the string (or all strings) into
> the data segment, allowing you to overwrite it.  I have never looked into how
> to do this, though.

Nor should you ;)  I think that you're looking for this:

       -fwritable-strings
           Store string constants in the writable data segment and don't
           uniquize them.  This is for compatibility with old programs which
           assume they can write into string constants.

           Writing into string constants is a very bad idea; ''constants''
           should be constant.

Regards,
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