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From: jrd@Apple.COM (John Robert Dance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: More on MPW C 3.0 question
Message-ID: <38816@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 20 Feb 90 23:05:36 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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Lawrence:
In your example, the array and the pointer are really are two 
incompatible types. The two types are:
    (char *)[256] = char *
In ANSI C this in an incompatible assignment.  (This is because the
address arithmetic for a pointer to a foo is different than for a pointer
to an array of foo.)
It is not a bug in MPW C.  The way to do what you want is to use the
cast, or use a StringPtr.

John Dance
Apple Computer