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From: dkeisen@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Passing Multi-dimensional arrays to a function
Message-ID: <1990Jul20.142408.352@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 20 Jul 90 14:24:08 GMT
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In article <1990Jul19.112403.709@DRD.Com> tdh@drd.Com (Tom Haynes) writes:
>volpe@underdog.crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe) wrote:
>} >    cischa(pnlptr, "PREFIX", 0, SCREEN, prefix[curr]);
>} *                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>} *         prefix[curr] is of type (char *) whereas the formal parameter
>} *         is of type (char **). Maybe you wanted "&prefix[curr]"???
>} *
>
>I tried that, along with &prefix[curr][0], both were no go.
>Error message was something like '& not allowed on struct/array'.
>

Many compilers don't take &prefix[curr] when prefix[curr] is an array,
you can use prefix + curr instead.

But prefix + curr is still of type pointer to array of char, the
formal paramter is of type pointer to pointer of char; the types
still don't match.



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