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From: bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: arrays/pointers in C
Message-ID: <676@dataio.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 12:35:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  6 12:35:44 1985
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In article <459@rtech.UUCP> jas@rtech.UUCP (Jim Shankland) writes:
>An identifier of an array object is ALWAYS read as a pointer to the
>first element of the array, except in the declaration itself.

Not quite true. Inside of a sizeof expression, arrays are not converted
to pointers. For example,

	int a[4][5];

	b = sizeof(a[2]);

b is assigned 5*sizeof(int), not sizeof(int *). Another C feature that
can only be discerned by reading between the lines.