For the code I spoke of in my first post,
the compiler (I am using gcc btw), produced one warning saying that a pointer from integer was made without a necessary typecast. (shamrock warned me of this, so this gcc output was probably expected).
I tried this
Code:
char *str="helloworld\n";
printf("string value is %s\n",*str)
and found the program compiled fine, but at runtime I got a segmentation fault error. I also found that in the first code segment, if you ignore the compiler warning and run the program straight, you get the same run-time error.
As pointers are meant to be assigned to memory locations (and point to values), with respect to this basic understanding and the fact that ASCII characters have memory addresses, aren't both code segments technically correct ??
