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From: chris@trantor.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pointers, arrays and dbx problems.
Keywords: Arrays, dbx arror??
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Date: 14 Feb 88 09:40:31 GMT
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In article <360@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> kyriazis@pawl20.pawl.rpi.edu
(George Kyriazis) writes:
>int	(*lines)[2];
>
>... What I actually want is a pointer to arrays of 2 ints. ...
>Anyway, when I run it thru dbx on a SUN and ask 'whatis lines' I get this:
>
>int (*lines)[8196];

Your Sun's dbx (or compiler) is buggy.  Sun's dbx releases seem to be
almost as buggy as those in 4.2BSD.
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