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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question about type casting
Message-ID: <7095@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 15 Jan 88 13:54:49 GMT
References: <5080009@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <5080010@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <5080010@hpfcdc.HP.COM> boemker@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Tim Boemker) writes:
>  int A[1];
>  ( (int [1]) A ) [0] = 0;
>Why can't I cast an array as an array?

The second `A' above is the NAME of an array.  In this context it gets
converted right away into a pointer to its first element.  You cannot
legitimately convert a pointer into an array.