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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: meaning of "string constants" in C
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Date: Sun, 30-Aug-87 09:44:07 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 30 09:44:07 1987
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In article <231@xyzzy.UUCP> throopw@xyzzy.UUCP (Wayne A. Throop) writes:
>["string"] does not, I repeat *NOT* evaluate to the address of the
>array.  It evaluates to the address of the first element in the array,
>namely the 'L' in "LDA".

Oops!  I abase myself, etc., &c.  The type of "foo" is indeed
pointer to char, not pointer to array 4 of char.

(Sorry about that.)
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