@arun: http://mindprod.com/jgloss/immutable.html this might help you, in essense, if a compiler treats them as immutable, the reason is to reduce the overhead of creating another contant literal (as explain at the link, the string literals are the most commonly used)
this is from a java (or higher than C languages) just got to know that this is in C too... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/algogeeks/-/vcZVkFcVEwoJ. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.
