Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: ref. to array != ptr Message-ID: <14391@smoke.brl.mil> Date: 9 Nov 90 05:20:52 GMT References: <894@inews.intel.com> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 7 In article <894@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes: > is there anything more explicit stating that the declaration of an >externally-defined pointer to Type can not specify an array of Type >with the same identifier defined externally? Sure. 3.1.2.6: "All declarations that refer to the same object or function shall have compatible type; otherwise, the behavior is undefined."