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From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: decalring large arrays
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.095008.15196@druid.uucp>
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
References: <285B94A3.25253@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> <1991Jun18.205921.20757@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <0094A521.858B9BC0@MAPLE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 91 09:50:08 GMT

In <0094A521.858B9BC0@MAPLE.CIRCA.UFL.EDU> sorrow@oak.circa.ufl.edu writes:
>Actually, this MAY be legal (never tried it, but what the hell):
>void main ( void )
>{
>char *TheArray=(char *)malloc(BIG_NUMBER);
>char  TheArrayAgain[]=TheArray;               // Is this legal?
>}

Have you been following the discussion about stupid answers to FAQs?
Please don't post code you haven't tried.  This is so wrong it is ludicrous
and a run through any compiler would have told you so.


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