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From: ejp@bohra.cpg.oz (Esmond Pitt)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Bounds checks.  (was variable-length struct hack)
Message-ID: <238@bohra.cpg.oz>
Date: 14 Dec 89 23:56:33 GMT
References: <448@longway.TIC.COM> <450@longway.TIC.COM> <15364@haddock.ima.isc.com> <809@prles2.UUCP> <1989Dec8.161820.24804@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1989Dec11.181631.3864@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <1989Dec12.190347.13521@twwells.com> <466@cpsolv.UUCP>
Reply-To: ejp@bohra.cpg.oz (Esmond Pitt)
Organization: Computer Power Group, Melb, Australia
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>In article <1989Dec12.190347.13521@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
>The two are exactly the same:
>
>	&A[N] = &(*(A + N)) = A + N

Is this really correct?

	&(*(anything))
	
does not have a defined meaning anywhere else in C. Perhaps we mean:

	&A[N] = &A[0+N] = &A[0]+N = A+N


-- 
Esmond Pitt, Computer Power Group
ejp@bohra.cpg.oz