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From: dbk@mimsy.umd.edu (Dan Kozak)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Doctor C's Pointers
Message-ID: <25872@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 3 Aug 90 17:49:49 GMT
References: <1741@tuvie>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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From article <1741@tuvie>, by inst182@tuvie (Inst.f.Techn.Informatik):
>>(            "abcd"[i] and f()[j]                                )

> Provided f is declared as
> 	sometype * f (void)
> it returns a pointer to sometype, and I can subscript that pointer like
> any other pointer. 

Or if the declarations are

	int f (void);
	sometype j[SOMECONSTANT];

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