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From: diamond@csl.sony.co.jp (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Help...
Message-ID: <10953@riks.csl.sony.co.jp>
Date: 11 Oct 89 06:11:47 GMT
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Reply-To: diamond@ws.sony.junet (Norman Diamond)
Organization: Sony Computer Science Laboratory Inc., Tokyo, Japan
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In article <RANG.89Oct9215608@derby.cs.wisc.edu> rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:

>There is no difference between "char h[]" and "char *h" in a
>declaration; they do exactly the same thing.

char h[];
h = malloc(27);   /* should generate an error message */

char *h;
h = malloc(27);   /* should work */

Mr. Rang's posting proceeded to give a reasonably correct answer to
someone's question, but this bit of nonsense was a poor start.

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