C Strings Comparison with Equal Sign

Question

I have this code:

char *name = \"George\"

if(name == \"George\")
   printf(\"It\'s George\")

I thought that c strings could not be compare

Answer 1

This will fail, since you are comparing two different pointers of two separate strings. If this code still works, then this is a result of a heavy optimization of GCC, that keeps only one copy for size optimization.

Use strcmp(). Link.