GENERAL DOUBT C

Question

void main() {
    char *p="cprogramming";
}

I know the string literal "cprogramming" is stored in read only data segment. But where will the pointer p be stored, in stack or read-write data segment ?

Comments

same, on stack. Because "const char *p" means p is pointing to a constant location (we should not change the contents at the location) but p itself is not a constant. "const * char p" or "char * const p" makes the pointer a constant. Here, the short answer for where "p" is given memory is "implementation defined". For detail: 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1576489/where-are-constant-variables-stored-in-c

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Answer 1

Different compilers do it in different ways. So, it depends on the compiler that you are using.