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From: john@genrad.UUCP (John Nelson)
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Subject: Re: Lattice/UNIX incompatibility
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Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 11:31:08 EST
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>> 
>> 	7. Identical strings are stored together.  (I doubt that
>> this would cause many problems.)
>> 
>Boy does this cause problems.  My application overwrites the string.
>When I wanted to do it twice I did something like
>	char	*str1 = "../../..";
>	char	*str2 = "../../..";
>

defining these two strings as:

	char	str1[] = "../../..";
	char	str2[] = "../../..";

avoids the problem.  This defines two arrays (seperate storage) initialized
to be the value of the string, rather than two pointers to string storage.

I think that it is rather chancy to overwrite string literals, in any case.