From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16920 invoked by alias); 24 Nov 2006 09:56:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 16910 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Nov 2006 09:56:45 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx2.redhat.com (HELO mx2.redhat.com) (66.187.237.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:56:41 +0000 Received: from int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (int-mx2.corp.redhat.com [172.16.27.26]) by mx2.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id kAO9udLj007082 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 04:56:39 -0500 Received: from zebedee.littlepinkcloud.COM (vpn-14-69.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.14.69]) by int-mx2.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kAO9uaWI019667; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 04:56:37 -0500 Received: from littlepinkcloud.COM (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by zebedee.littlepinkcloud.COM (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id kAO9uY8J019498; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:56:35 GMT Received: (from aph@localhost) by littlepinkcloud.COM (8.13.6/8.13.5/Submit) id kAO9uYBv019495; Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:56:34 GMT MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17766.49617.952075.116206@zebedee.pink> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:56:00 -0000 From: Andrew Haley To: "kanishk rastogi" Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Problem with the string In-Reply-To: <9ee2fe770611240126t47803b82gc733ae0e7d61b746@mail.gmail.com> References: <9ee2fe770611240126t47803b82gc733ae0e7d61b746@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2006-11/txt/msg00274.txt.bz2 kanishk rastogi writes: > hi all, > when we compile our c programs the strings which we use get defined in > read only memory. > how can i ask the gcc compiler to declare them in read-write section. You just gotta declare them right. Like this: char s[] = "This is a string!"; Andrew.