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Top Forums Programming Data segment or Text segment Post 302519136 by Corona688 on Tuesday 3rd of May 2011 06:03:47 AM
Old 05-03-2011
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Originally Posted by naresh046
It is in text segment ... If you want you can check it... like this..
Try to change the value of that variable..
Sorry, that's wrong -- or at least not strictly correct. In my system, it ends up in the .rodata section, which is read-only despite not being the text section.

The text section doesn't actually mean text as in words -- it means program text, i.e. machine language. It's read-only since it usually maps directly into object files. It's not inconceivable for variables to end up there, but still a funny place to put them.

The data segment would make more sense, being where global variables go, but has the drawback of not being read-only.

So, for systems that don't have any sort of read-only data section available, I guess the text section might be as good a place as any. And if you can write to it, it's probably inside the data segment...
 

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xmstringgetnextsegment

XmStringGetNextSegment(3X)												XmStringGetNextSegment(3X)

NAME

       XmStringGetNextSegment - A compound string function that fetches the octets in the next segment of a compound string

SYNOPSIS

       #include <Xm/Xm.h>

       Boolean XmStringGetNextSegment (context, text, tag, direction, separator)
	       XmStringContext context;
	       char **text;
	       XmStringCharSet *tag;
	       XmStringDirection *direction;
	       Boolean *separator;

DESCRIPTION

       XmStringGetNextSegment  fetches	the octets in the next segment; repeated calls fetch sequential segments.  The text, tag, and direction of
       the fetched segment are returned each time.  A Boolean status is returned to indicate whether a	valid  segment	was  successfully  parsed.
       Specifies  the  string context structure which was allocated by the XmStringInitContext function.  Specifies a pointer to a null terminated
       string.	Specifies a pointer to the font list element tag associated with the text.  Specifies a pointer to  the  direction  of	the  text.
       Specifies whether the next component of the compound string is a separator.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns True if a valid segment is found.

SEE ALSO

       XmStringCreate(3X), XmStringInitContext(3X)

															XmStringGetNextSegment(3X)
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