worley@compass.com (Dale Worley) (06/18/91)
In article <91165.174358KQS@psuvm.psu.edu> KQS@psuvm.psu.edu (Kevin Sullivan) writes:
second: "9" evaluates to a (const char *), not a char.
Sorry, the type of "9" is (char *). The ANSI committee discovered
that too much code would break if its type was (const char *), because
you couldn't do things like:
char *p = "abc";
(You can't assign a pointer-to-constant-T to a pointer-to-T.) See
section 3.1.4 of the standard and rationale.
(Actually, the type of "9" is "array of 2 chars", which is almost
always immediately coerced into "pointer to char".)
Dale Worley Compass, Inc. worley@compass.com
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