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From: rkl@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (kevin.laux)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pointer Stew
Keywords: Illegal Initialization
Message-ID: <473@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Date: 8 May 89 16:59:52 GMT
References: <386@spec0.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
Lines: 25

In article <386@spec0.UUCP>, blm@spec0.UUCP (Bharat Lal Madhyani) writes:

	[stuff deleted]

> 	   				And as we all know that two
> 	dimensional array are implemented through pointers, i.e
> 	char a[10][20] means :
> 
> 		a is an array of 10 pointers, and each element of
> 		array a is an array of  20 characters.
> 
> */

	[stuff deleted]

	No!  Array a is *NOT* an array of 10 pointers and does *NOT* mean it
either.  Array a is a two-dimensional array of chars, period.

	When you write:

	char *path[10];

	*That* is an array of 10 pointers to chars.

--rkl