What is the difference between char s[] and char *s?

The difference here is that

char *s = "Hello world";

will place "Hello world" in the read-only parts of the memory, and making s a pointer to that makes any writing operation on this memory illegal.

While doing:

char s[] = "Hello world";

puts the literal string in read-only memory and copies the string to newly allocated memory on the stack. Thus making

s[0] = 'J';

legal.

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