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From: throopw@sheol.UUCP (Wayne Throop)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Silly question... (when is an array not a pointer)
Summary: who keeps spreading this rumor?
Message-ID: <0794@sheol.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 90 22:01:32 GMT
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From: bbs00068@uafcseg.uucp (Joel Kolstad)
> MyBytes Mem[];
> MyBytes *Mem; 
> This is certainly equivalent,

It is certinly *NOT* equivalent.

This particular Frequently Promulgated Misconception (which is
addressed in lengthy detail on the Frequently Asked Questions list)
arouses my curriosity.

I would appreciate it if Joel (and anybody else who is now, or
who has ever been a holder of this heresy) would email me a short
summary of how they arrived at this error.  I'd like to gather a
sampling and see if there is a common reason for making this error.


BTW: in case it isn't clear: an array is NEVER a pointer.  In one
(ill considered, in my opinion) irregular place in the language
an array declaration is interpreted as a pointer declaration.
--
Wayne Throop <backbone>!mcnc!rti!sheol!throopw or sheol!throopw@rti.rti.org