Hi Neil,

    While all this kerfuffle about string storage is all
very interesting academically, does it have any practical application?

    We have done our best to answer your questions, but my question to you
is - what difference does it make?

    If it is as I suspect, and then only if you are confident enough of
your own carefulness in programming, you should break the program down into
separate modules and use an overlay linker to reconnect the modules
dynamically. This will result in redundant string space not only going out
of scope, but also being cleared out of memory by the overlay loader. Is
that what you were after? The practice is not actually dangerous, it just
requires care and is a bit old-fashioned now, because it has largely been
superseded by DLLs. I can see applications in embedded programs where
memory is limited and linear, but I thought that the hardware revolution
had caught up even there.

Best wishes,
Bill.

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