Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site enmasse.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!enmasse!mroddy From: mroddy@enmasse.UUCP (Mark Roddy) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Re: String help! Message-ID: <363@enmasse.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 10:24:38 EST Article-I.D.: enmasse.363 Posted: Fri Mar 1 10:24:38 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 03:30:11 EST References: <8257@watarts.UUCP> <929@ukma.UUCP> <437@ark.UUCP> <7014@watdaisy.UUCP> Organization: Enmasse Computer Corp., Acton, Mass. Lines: 21 > > (a confused hon-hacker writes...) Why would you want to keep a pointer to > a constant string (or at least a constant length string)?? foo(n) { static char str="foobar 0x0000\n"; hexdigit(n,&str[9]); /* puts n into string */ return(str); } As to why, imagine an environment without stdio etc- i.e., as is happening more frequently, C used to implement intelligent peripheral device software. -- Mark Roddy Net working, Just reading the news. (harvard!talcott!panda!enmasse!mroddy)