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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Absolute addressing in Turbo-C
Message-ID: <6396@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 19:01:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6396
Posted: Thu Sep  3 19:01:57 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 12:19:37 EDT
References: <9140@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <9140@brl-adm.ARPA> BREEBAAR%HLERUL5.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.EDU writes:
>It's this: Just WHY is it in C 'better' to write: *(a+n) instead of: a[n],
>where 'a' is an array of something? And how much 'better' is it?

It's NOT "better".  It's not particularly worse, either, although if
a is declared as an array (rather than a pointer) the a[n] form is
generally better style.