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From: george@hls0.hls.oz (George Turczynski)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: external declarations of ptrs and arrays
Summary: Get it right !
Message-ID: <832@hls0.hls.oz>
Date: 2 Aug 90 23:04:34 GMT
References: <674@dg.dg.com> <364@taumet.com>
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In article <364@taumet.com>, steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes:
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> ...
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> "char *temp[20];" means "temp is the first address of an array of 20 chars".
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> ...

What ???

Don't you mean "char *temp[20];" means "temp is the first address of an array of 20 (char *) (pointers)."

Your description implies that 20 bytes of storage are used, but I think you'll find it is very different in reality !

Try this:

/* Cut here */

#include<stdio.h>

char	*temp[20];

main()
{
	fprintf(stderr,"Size of temp is %d.\n",sizeof(temp));

	exit(0);
}

/* Cut here */

This should prove to you that what you said is WRONG.

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