下面的代码在第2行接收到seg错误:
char *str = "string";
str[0] = 'z'; // could be also written as *str = 'z'
printf("%s\n", str);
虽然这个方法非常有效:
char str[] = "string";
str[0] = 'z';
printf("%s\n", str);
用MSVC和GCC测试。
当前回答
首先是一个不能修改的常量字符串。第二个是一个初始化值的数组，因此它可以被修改。
其他回答
参见C常见问题，问题1.32
Q: What is the difference between these initializations? char a[] = "string literal"; char *p = "string literal"; My program crashes if I try to assign a new value to p[i]. A: A string literal (the formal term for a double-quoted string in C source) can be used in two slightly different ways: As the initializer for an array of char, as in the declaration of char a[] , it specifies the initial values of the characters in that array (and, if necessary, its size). Anywhere else, it turns into an unnamed, static array of characters, and this unnamed array may be stored in read-only memory, and which therefore cannot necessarily be modified. In an expression context, the array is converted at once to a pointer, as usual (see section 6), so the second declaration initializes p to point to the unnamed array's first element. Some compilers have a switch controlling whether string literals are writable or not (for compiling old code), and some may have options to cause string literals to be formally treated as arrays of const char (for better error catching).
char *str = "string";
上面的代码将str设置为指向在程序的二进制映像中硬编码的字面值“string”，它在内存中可能被标记为只读。
因此str[0]=试图写入应用程序的只读代码。我猜这可能依赖于编译器。
在第一个代码中，"string"是一个字符串常量，字符串常量永远不应该被修改，因为它们通常被放置在只读内存中。"str"是一个用来修改常量的指针。
在第二段代码中，"string"是一个数组初始化器，类似于
char str[7] = { 's', 't', 'r', 'i', 'n', 'g', '\0' };
"str"是堆栈上分配的数组，可以自由修改。
通常，当程序运行时，字符串字面值存储在只读内存中。这是为了防止您意外地更改字符串常量。在第一个例子中，"string"存储在只读内存中，*str指向第一个字符。当您试图将第一个字符更改为'z'时，会发生段错误。
在第二个例子中，字符串"string"被编译器从其只读母数组复制到str[]数组中。然后允许更改第一个字符。你可以通过打印每个地址来检查:
printf("%p", str);
同样，在第二个例子中打印str的大小会显示编译器已经为它分配了7个字节:
printf("%d", sizeof(str));
char *str = "string";
分配一个指向字符串字面量的指针，编译器将其放入可执行文件中不可修改的部分;
char str[] = "string";
分配并初始化一个可修改的本地数组
