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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "array" vs. "&array" ?
Message-ID: <1989Dec23.151411.3688@virtech.uucp>
Date: 23 Dec 89 15:14:11 GMT
References: <1989Dec22.013757.3086@sj.ate.slb.com> <571@mwtech.UUCP>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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In article <571@mwtech.UUCP>, martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) writes:
> To my understanding, the following *is* a type mismatch:
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> main()
> {
> 	char a[10], (*p)[10];
> 
> 	p = a;
> warning: illegal pointer combination, op =
> }

Did you try a cast?  Try the following:

main()
{
 	char a[10], (*p)[10];
 
 	p = (char (*)[10]) a;
}

this worked fine for me.  No complaints from the compiler.

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