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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question about type casting
Message-ID: <7041@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 11 Jan 88 23:39:51 GMT
References: <5080009@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Posted: Mon Jan 11 18:39:51 1988

In article <5080009@hpfcdc.HP.COM> boemker@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Tim Boemker) writes:
-What's wrong with this program?
-main()
-{
-	int *i;
-	((int [1]) i) [0] = 1;
-}

How can you turn a pointer into an array?  It makes no sense.
Just use i[0] = 1; which is the same as *i = 1;.