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V675. Writing into read-only memory.
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V675. Writing into read-only memory.

Aug 12 2013

The analyzer has detected an attempt of writing into read-only memory.

Have a look at the following sample:

char *s = "A_string";
if (x)
  s[0] = 'B';

The pointer 's' refers to a memory area which is read-only. Changing this area will cause undefined behavior of the program which will most probably take form of an access violation.

This is the fixed code:

char s[] = "A_string";
if (x)
  s[0] = 'B';

The 's' array is created on the stack, and a string from read-only memory is copied into it. Now you can safely change the 's' string.

P.S.

If "A_string" is "const char *", why should this type be implicitly cast to "char *"?

This is done due to compatibility reasons. There exists a TOO large amount of legacy code in C where non-constant pointers are used, and C++ standard/compiler developers didn't dare to break the backward compatibility with that code.

This diagnostic is classified as:

  • CERT-ENV30-C
  • CERT-STR30-C

You can look at examples of errors detected by the V675 diagnostic.