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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: external declarations of ptrs and arrays
Message-ID: <25840@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 2 Aug 90 09:40:36 GMT
References: <674@dg.dg.com> <364@taumet.com>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <364@taumet.com> steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes:
>... The declarations "pointer-to" and "array-of" are NOT equivalent
>types.  There are some expression contexts where either type
>may be used with the same semantics.

(right)

>"char *temp[20];" means "temp is the first address of an array of 20 chars".
>"temp[n]" means "n bytes past temp".

This must be a typo: `char temp[20]', not `char *temp[20]'.  In this case
temp *is* an array of 20 chars.  It *becomes* the address of the first one,
in those expression contexts, but it *is* an array.  Think `object temp,
array; value of object temp, pointer'.  It is the `value' of an array that
becomes a pointer: the array itself remains an array, always.
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