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From: stpeters@dawn.steinmetz (Dick St.Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: have I found a bug in K&R?
Message-ID: <7608@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 15:11:05 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 15:11:05 1987
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Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: argv definition

In article <321@laticorp.UUCP> sarah@laticorp.UUCP (Sarah Groves Hobart) writes:
>Remember that the following declarations are equivalent:
>
>char s[];
>
>char *s;

Actually, they're not.  The difference is like that between a constant
and a variable: you can change the value of s (the address it points
to) if you declare it as a pointer [variable], but you can't if you
declare it as an array [constant].  Consider what "&s" means in the
two cases.



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Dick St.Peters                        
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters@ge-crd.arpa              
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