Re: [avr-gcc-list] Bizarre string problem

[Joerg Wunsch]

Richard Urwin <address@hidden> wrote:

>> char t[2] = "T";

> I don't remember that being standard C.

It is.  It's more commonly written as

char t[] = "T";

though.  For example, the PSTR() macro does exactly something like
that internally.  (That's also the reason why PSTR() doesn't aggregate
identical strings.)

Technically, it creates a variable that is initialized with 'T', and
'\0', but remains a variable in all respects (i.e. you're free to
modify both elements of t[]).  In contrast,

char *t = "T";

declares a pointer to the (anonymous) array containing 'T', followed
by '\0', but the compiler is allowed to place the anonymous array into
read-only memory, and it is allowed to aggregate these anonymous
arrays in case more of them appear in the same translation unit.  You
are not allowed to modify the object t is pointing to, i.e. you gotta
handle it as if it had been declared to be

const char *t = "T";

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