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From: kyriazis@pawl20.pawl.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Pointers, arrays and dbx problems.
Keywords: Arrays, dbx arror??
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Date: 14 Feb 88 07:17:48 GMT
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Reply-To: kyriazis@pawl20.pawl.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis)
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	Hello world.  I first found that peculiar behaviour trying to
write a computer graphics program involving points, lines and polygons.  
Anyway, here it is:  

int	(*lines)[2];
main() {}

is a dummy program that just defines this data structure.  What I actually
want is a pointer to arrays of 2 ints.  I believe that int *lines[2] will
do the reverse, ie. give me two pointers to int.
Anyway, when I run it thru dbx on a SUN and ask 'whatis lines' I get this:

int (*lines)[8196];

As far as I know, this is a *BIG* mistake?  Or am I wrong?
I'll try to compile the same thing to different machines and see what I get
there...  
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