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From: hunter@Oswego.EDU (Eric Hunter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: p[1] vs. *(p+1)
Summary: It's not addition.
Message-ID: <1990Sep3.173250.8113@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
Date: 3 Sep 90 17:32:50 GMT
References: <1990Aug31.190103.15043@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> <0901@sheol.UUCP> <8382@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: hunter@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Eric Hunter)
Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
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In <0901@sheol.UUCP> throopw@sheol.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:

>Or to try putting it another way, I think it is misleading to say that
>"adding one to p 'really' adds sizeof(*p) to p".  I disagree.  I say it
>"really" adds 1, and the result points at an element in the array into
>which p points which is offset exactly 1 array element from where p points.

It doesn't "really" add 1; it increments the pointer variable to the next
available address.

Eric.
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