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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Help me cast this!: Ultrix 2.x bug
Message-ID: <11371@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 88 04:20:52 GMT
References: <294@fedeva.UUCP> <1451@iscuva.ISCS.COM> <11344@mimsy.UUCP> <386@m3.mfci.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Lines: 15
Keywords: pointer to array of struct

In article <386@m3.mfci.UUCP> root@mfci.UUCP (SuperUser) writes:
-... "type (*)[...]" and "type **" are clearly incompatible types....
-However, pcc compilers [without Guy Harris's fix, or equivalent]
-don't give a warning, and I was once told that Dennis Ritchie considers
-it to be perfectly legal C.

Told by whom?

-So even though I consider it to be brain damaged to treat * and []
-as equivalent other than at the top level, I am currently under the
-impression that this is standard K&R C.

I think not.  It is certainly not true in dpANS C.
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