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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Another silly question
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Date: 28 Apr 89 02:29:58 GMT
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In article <2459@nmtsun.nmt.edu> kelly@titan.nmt.edu (Sean Kelly) writes:
: My CS instructor and I disagree about a certain moot point.  I have a text
: book which says that
:
:       *(a + i)        and     a[i]
:
: are equivalent, given an array a, and int index i

This is a fundamental identity in C. A failure to do this in a
compiler would be considered a *major*, as in withdraw the product,
BUG.

A failure to understand this marks one as not competent to program C.

: What do you think?

Get another CS instructor.

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