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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: char (*a)[]  (was: Style [++i vs i++])
Message-ID: <932@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 17:34:50 EDT
Article-I.D.: haddock.932
Posted: Wed Aug 12 17:34:50 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 02:24:29 EDT
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Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com.UUCP (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <234@nvpna1.UUCP> strouckn@nvpna1.UUCP (Louis Stroucken 42720) writes:
>[In the declaration "main(a) char (*a)[]; ..."] Please note that "a" is a
>formal argument of main!!  K&R [says] `...formal parameters declared "array
>of..." are adjusted to read "pointer to...".'

Which is irrelevant, since "a" is not an array.  It is a pointer to an array
(note the parens in the declaration), which is not converted.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint