Are string literals const?

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They are of type char[N] where N is the number of characters including the terminating \0. So yes you can assign them to char*, but you still cannot write to them (the effect will be undefined).

Wrt argv: It points to an array of pointers to strings. Those strings are explicitly modifiable. You can change them and they are required to hold the last stored value.

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