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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C problems
Message-ID: <9434@alice.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 89 03:01:45 GMT
References: <29@<May> <124200016@inmet>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <124200016@inmet>, porges@inmet.UUCP writes:

>     Since noone else jumped in on this:  char **argv and char *argv[] are NOT
> the same thing in delcarations.

True; except for declarations of formal parameters.

That is:

	void f(x) char *x; { /* stuff */ }

means precisely the same thing as

	void f(x) char x[]; { /* stuff */ }

but

	void f() { char x[10]; }

is different from

	void f() { char *x; }

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				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com