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From: gwyn@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re:  allocating arrays
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Date: Thu, 15-May-86 19:18:03 EDT
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double (*parray[15])[] is not "pointer to array[15] of (double *)"
but rather "array of 15 pointers to arrays of doubles".
[] has precedence over *.

I don't know whether this misunderstanding contributed to the
original poster's problem or not.  I do know that a lot of
people make this []-vs.-* precedence mistake.