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From: pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: More prototype questions...
Message-ID: <6144@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 88 16:49:40 GMT
Reply-To: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel)
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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I hate to hash this out again, but I have a dpANS-related questions
about the difference between a pointer to an object and the name of
an array of objects.

When I run gcc with all the dpANS flags (-ansi -pedantic), it
complains about functions that are prototyped as

	f (char s[]);

and used as

	static char *x = "honk";
	foo (x);

I think I understand the difference between the array name and a
ponter to objects in the array: the array name is the address of an
object that is the size of the entire array, while a pointer to the
first element of the same array is a pointer to an object the size
of an *element* in the array.

Perhaps I'm answering my own question here, but I don't see why this
distiction causes problems for the prototypes.  Can somebody please
explain?

    ;-D on  ( Thanks again, ladies and gentlemen, for your patients )  Pardo
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