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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: pointers to arrays and the '&' operator
Message-ID: <15980@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 16 Feb 89 16:24:02 GMT
References: <3927@ingr.com>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <3927@ingr.com> crossgl@ingr.com (Gordon Cross) writes:
>I could not find any explicit reference to this in the standard (admittedly
>I have an old copy) ...

Either your copy is too old or you did not look hard enoguh:

>why am I not permitted to apply the '&' (address of) operator
>directly to an array?

The pANS allows it.  (PCC can be made to allow it by *removing* a few
statements from the compiler.)
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