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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: typedef-ing an array
Summary: corrections for two typos
Message-ID: <25308@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 5 Jul 90 16:04:49 GMT
References: <78627@srcsip.UUCP> <78633@srcsip.UUCP> <25247@mimsy.umd.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <25247@mimsy.umd.edu> I made two typing errors:
>... typedef char foo[24]; ... [foo] has size 24*sizeof(char)==24 ...
>	printf("%d\n", sizeof(foo));
>must print 42.

The last line above should read `24'.

>[main] may have either 0 arguments or two (int argc, char *argv).

The second argument should be `char **argv' (or equivalently `char *argv[]';
I recommend against the latter form since parameters declared as arrays
are not arrays, but this is the only place in C when a declaration does
not mean what it says, and this form leads programmers to believe that
arrays and pointers are `the same', which is not the case).
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