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Re:


Hi Keith,

Keith Carscadden wrote:
> with STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION. I eventually realized that the problem was
> caused by me passing a pointer to a literal (  char *test1 = "123    "; ),
> rather than a pointer to a character array. When I fixed this ( char
> test1[] = "123    "; ), the program ran as expected.
> 
> My question is, why did this run without an error under gdb, when it
> aborted when run under DOS?

To make constant strings read-only they are put into the code segment.
During ordinary runs, the code segmant will be read-only on Win/32. OTOH
gdb needs to be able to change the code to add breakpoints, so under a
debugger the code segment will be writable to allow this.

so long, benny
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