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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Pointer arithmetic and comparison
Keywords: arrays, malloc
Message-ID: <10245@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 10 May 89 13:41:09 GMT
References: <13004@haddock.ima.isc.com> <4646@freja.diku.dk> <320.nlhp3@oracle.nl>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <320.nlhp3@oracle.nl> bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) writes:
>The call to malloc gives me 1000 * sizeof int bytes, but is this an array?

From the pANS:

	The pointer returned if the allocation succeeds is suitably
	aligned so that it may be assigned to a pointer to any type
	of object and then used to access such an object or an array
	of such objects in the space allocated (until the space is
	explicitly freed or reallocated).