What is the meaning of Bus: error 10 in C

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For one, you can’t modify string literals. It’s undefined behavior.

To fix that you can make str a local array:

char str[] = "First string";

Now, you will have a second problem, is that str isn’t large enough to hold str2. So you will need to increase the length of it. Otherwise, you will overrun str – which is also undefined behavior.

To get around this second problem, you either need to make str at least as long as str2. Or allocate it dynamically:

char *str2 = "Second string";
char *str = malloc(strlen(str2) + 1);  //  Allocate memory
//  Maybe check for NULL.

strcpy(str, str2);

//  Always remember to free it.
free(str);

There are other more elegant ways to do this involving VLAs (in C99) and stack allocation, but I won’t go into those as their use is somewhat questionable.

As @SangeethSaravanaraj pointed out in the comments, everyone missed the #import. It should be #include:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

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