Lies in education [was Re: The "loop and a half"]

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 03:37 pm, Gregory Ewing wrote:

> If the compiler can tell where p is initially pointing, it could
> put the pointer in read-only memory.

If it's read-only, how can the compiler write to it?


(I come from the days when ROM was actual ROM, burned in at the factory.)




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Steve
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