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From: swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: arrays...
Message-ID: <5773@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Date: 1 May 88 21:51:16 GMT
Sender: news@sigi.Colorado.EDU
Reply-To: swarbric@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Frank Swarbrick)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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Is there some reason why you can do:

void foo(const int *bar);

main()
{
   int ary[] = {1,2,3,4};

   foo(ary);
}

but you can't do

void foo(const int *bar);

main()
{
   foo({1,2,3,4});
}

Never mind that it seems silly to do this particular thing without any other
parameters.  I was just too lazy to write in the other ones.  This is even
stranger concidering you *can* do

main()
{
   char str[20];

   strcpy(str,"This sucks!");
}

(no,
 strcpy(str,{'T','h','i','s',' ','s','u','c','k','s','\0'});
doesn't work....)

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