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From: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW C 3.0 question
Summary: temps is ALREADY a pointer, &temps makes no sense...
Message-ID: <6142@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 90 20:00:17 GMT
References: <152.25dc364d@waikato.ac.nz>
Reply-To: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <152.25dc364d@waikato.ac.nz> ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz writes:

> Can anybody tell me why the following program throws up an error with
> MPW C 3.0?
>    typedef unsigned char
>	Str255[256];
>    main()
>      {
>	Str255
>	    temps, *tempp;
>
>	tempp = &temps;
>      }

because temps is a reference to an array without an explicit index, it
resolves to the address of the array itself.  Thus either of these two
would be just fine:

       tempp = temps;
       tempp = &temps[0];

This is the way C works...

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