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From: wgh@ubbpc.UUCP (William G. Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 10[25]==35? Really?
Summary: Did this example really compile?
Message-ID: <784@ubbpc.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 91 16:21:45 GMT
References: <25694@netcom.COM>
Organization: Unisys UNIX Portation Center, Blue Bell, PA
Lines: 28

In article <25694@netcom.COM>, avery@netcom.COM (Avery Colter) writes:
> With all this about the #define X1 -10, I find it interesting that
> indexing a constant yields the sum of the constant and the number inside
> the brackets.
> 
> I could RTFM till the cows come home and never would have gleaned this.
> 
> Silly me, I would have thought that 10[25] would yield the value
> residing in the position 25 positions away from address 10.
> 
# cat ca.c
main() {
        printf("%d\n", 10[25]);
        return 0;
}
# make ca
        cc -O  ca.c -o ca
"ca.c", line 2: illegal indirection
*** Error code 1

Stop.

 I don't see how RTFMing can show you something that is not true???
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