Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Bit Addressable Architectures
Message-ID: <7696@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 15 Apr 88 21:35:57 GMT
References: <11702@brl-adm.ARPA> <243@eagle_snax.UUCP> <2245@geac.UUCP> <7684@brl-smoke.ARPA> <259@sdrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <259@sdrc.UUCP> scjones@sdrc.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
-In article <7684@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
-> (I don't think the array name is turned into a pointer just because it's
-> surrounded by parentheses.)
-If it ain't, the compiler's broke!  The sizeof operator can be applied to a
-parenthesized type name or to an expression.  Since "foo" isn't a type name,
-the operand of sizeof is an expression.  When an array name appears in an
-expression and it's not the operand of & or sizeof (whose operand is the
-parenthesized express, remember), it's converted into a pointer to the first
-element.

My problem was that I couldn't find where in the dpANS the effect of
the parentheses operator was defined.  Is it in there somewhere?

Your explanation sounds right to me but I do want to see what we
say about the effect of parentheses.  Perhaps we removed too much!