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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: compatibility of types
Message-ID: <17068@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 11 Jul 90 21:48:22 GMT
References: <1990Jul11.002522.24178@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1842@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
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In article <1842@tkou02.enet.dec.com> diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) writes:
>int(*)[3] and int(*)[5] also point to integers,

Actually they point to arrays which happen to contain integers, but we'll let
that pass.

>but they are not compatible with each other.  It's a bit too subtle for me to
>figure out if each is compatible with int* or not.

No, but they are each compatible with the pointer-to-incomplete-type int(*)[].

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@kelp.ima.isc.com or ima!kelp!karl), The Walking Lint