On 2/25/12, Ali Çehreli <acehr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > But there is no way for fwrite to follow name.ptr to also write the > characters that are in the string, right?
Oh my I just got a big fat zero on the finals. You're absolutely right, what gets copied is the length and the pointer. The only reason my last sample worked is because the memory for the strings was allocated on the stack, which had the same address between runs.