Aug 082015
gcc can compile either c source or assembler (.s extension) or even a combination of both.
As I had the assembler source, decided to experiment with altering the string data (I don’t yet know enough to do anything else).
it still worked 🙂
note how the addresses of the array pointer change, as the strings have grown by a few characters…
below is the original code
of course this is basic easy stuff; those strings are static/constant data and declared at compile time. if your code is dealing with strings that can change their length, it must always have sufficient free memory allocated to wherever the string data ends up, enough for the largest of the data. Otherwise you get a buffer overflow and your goose is cooked…