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From: hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: C question
Summary: surely you mis quote K&R
Message-ID: <875@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Date: 6 Dec 89 00:44:15 GMT
References: <8912050802.AA12717@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: AT&T ISL Lincroft NJ USA
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In article <8912050802.AA12717@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, S61304@PRIME-A.POLY-SOUTH-WEST.AC.UK (Rat) writes:
> (From "The Masked Rat Fink"   "Computing and Informatics Yr4")
> 
> Question.
> 
> (This is probably a really silly one to any C wizards, but I'm only a BASIC
> wizard!)
> 
> Why wont Sozobon, Lattice or any other C compiler I've tried compile the
> following, from K&R?
> 
> main()
>      $
>      char fred[] = "Some string constant";
>      <rest of routine>
>      
> 
> This has been confusing me for a while, as K&R (surely correct!) would
> seem to indicate that this is indeed permissible!

NO NO NO

you can have char *fred[] = "hello";
or 
char fred[] = {'h','e','l','l','o','\0'};

but not 
char fred[] = "hello";

char *fred[] is an array of pointers, the first points to the string "hello"

char fred[] is an array of chars, 6 in my example.


Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
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