Re: VS2005 access violation on char array

I have an array defined as follows:

static CTS_PUCHAR auchKeys[] =
{
{(CTS_PUCHAR)"PCCCTEST ONTRACK"}, // 0
{(CTS_PUCHAR)"APPLN..1 ONTRACK"}, // 1
{(CTS_PUCHAR)"APPLN..2 ONTRACK"}, // 2
};

where:

typedef unsigned char CTS_UCHAR;
typedef CTS_UCHAR * CTS_PUCHAR;

In VC 6.0 I can do the following but in VS2005 it gives an access
violation
and I can't figure out why?

auchKeys[1][7] = '1';

It's illegal behaviour that you were getting away with in VC6. You can't
modify a string literal which is what you're doing here. A string literal is
an array of "const" char (or in your case "unsigned char").


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