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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Arrays and structures
Message-ID: <7145@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 21 Jan 88 13:57:39 GMT
References: <22151@linus.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <22151@linus.UUCP> jfjr@mbunix (Freedman) writes:
>Since they are arrays then the fields are actually pointers.

RONG.  In many circumstances, when used in an expression the
name of an array is converted to a pointer to the first element
of the array.  Also, arrays are not passed as function arguments,
so the corresponding pointer parameter declaration is permitted
to be written as an array parameter declaration, even though
this is misleading.  But an array is NOT a pointer.