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From: gurgle@well.sf.ca.us (Pete Gontier)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: array names and pointers
Keywords: array, pointer, name, parameter
Message-ID: <20869@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 2 Oct 90 03:50:18 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: cellular
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I need a lesson in the semantic differences between passing the name of an
array and passing a pointer to the type of that array. In other words, how
does the following usage differ?

	typedef char Str255 [ 256 ];

	Str255 s;
	char * s;

	void pstrcpy ( char * source, char * target ) {
	}

	void main ( void ) {
		Str255 target;
		pstrcpy ( "\ptest", target );
	}

Don't worry; I know very well that this won't compile. I wish it would.
Figuring out why it won't (or why it "shouldn't") is my intent here.

Please reply by mail; if I get non-trivial answers, I will summarize and
post them.
-- 
 Pete Gontier, gurgle@well.sf.ca.us
 Software Imagineer, Kiwi Software, Inc.