Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!psivax!torkil
From: torkil@psivax.UUCP (Torkil Hammer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Bug in TC2.0
Message-ID: <3420@psivax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 90 14:50:56 GMT
References: <RFROST.90Jun3234439@spam.ua.oz.au>
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA
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In article <RFROST.90Jun3234439@spam.ua.oz.au> rfrost@spam.ua.oz.au (Richard Frost) writes:
# 
# I have found what I think is a bug in version 2.0 of the Turbo C compiler.
# 
..

# char Test[] = {0xB0,0xB0,0xB0};		extern char *Test;
# 
# main(int argc, char *argv[])		void testfn(void)
# {					{
#  ...					 ...
#  testfn();
# 			 	 	 Test[1]  = 'A';
# 			 		 *(Test+2) = 'B';
# 
# }					}

No, not a bug in the compiler.  A bug in your code, in K&R as well as
ANSI standard.  A pointer is not the same as an array.  The code on
the right could work if you declared a global pointer named Test and
initialized it in the main program to point at the start of the global
array Test before calling testfn.

On a second thought, I think you will have to give the pointer a different
name from Test, but then it should work as desired.