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From: ballou@brahms (Kenneth R. Ballou)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: pointers to arrays
Message-ID: <376@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 19:13:19 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 19 19:13:19 1986
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References: <273@bms-at.UUCP> <1138@genrad.UUCP>
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Reply-To: ballou@brahms (Kenneth R. Ballou)
Organization: Math Dept. UC Berkeley
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Keywords: What? Why? How?

In article <1138@genrad.UUCP> rep@genrad.UUCP (Pete Peterson) writes:
>In article <273@bms-at.UUCP> stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart D. Gathman) writes:
>>I am still confused about several things concerning pointers to arrays.
>>There does seem to be such a type, even in K & R.
>>1) How does one get such an animal?  The only methods I can figure are
>>	a) a cast: ( type (*)[] ) array_of_type
>
>		You could declare:
>		char *(linesptr)[81]; /*declares linesptr to be a pointer to
					81 element arrays of chars. */
No, it does not!  It declares linesptr to be an array containing 81 elements,
each of which is a pointer to char.  Perhaps you meant to write
		char (* linesptr) [81];

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