Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!ima!haddock!karl
From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Another silly question
Message-ID: <13268@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 22 May 89 18:40:41 GMT
References: <17812@cup.portal.com> <607@kl-cs.UUCP> <749@mccc.UUCP> <17635@mimsy.UUCP> <756@mccc.UUCP>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
Lines: 14

In article <756@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>In article <17635@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>>I have never observed [a compiler to treat "a[i]" and "*(a+i)" differently].
>
>Perhaps I've asked the wrong question.  I saw a couple of simple test
>programs that assigned 0 to each member of an array.  One used array
>subscript notation, and the other, pointer notation.

By "pointer notation" do you mean only that the code used "*(a+i)" for "a[i]"?
Or are you talking about code that used "*p++" instead of "a[i++]"?  The
latter is an entirely different question!  (And it's usually what people are
testing when they write "array vs. pointer" tests.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint