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From: morten@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Morten Ronseth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: More on MPW C 3.0 question
Message-ID: <1701@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Feb 90 11:04:53 GMT
References: <162.25dfe4b3@waikato.ac.nz> <10311@hoptoad.uucp> <1629@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> <2966@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au>
Reply-To: morten@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Morten Ronseth)
Organization: Computer Science Dept, Queen Mary and Westfield College, U of London, UK.
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References: <162.25dfe4b3@waikato.ac.nz> <10311@hoptoad.uucp> <1629@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>

In article <2966@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> you write:
>In article <1629@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> you write:
>>References: <162.25dfe4b3@waikato.ac.nz>
>Well, yes I am.  char*argv[] is an array of POINTERS, not a pointer to an
>array.  char**argv is a POINTER to a POINTER, not a pointer to an array.
>C lets you use pointers as arrays but that doesnt make them the same thing.
>You CAN have pointers to arrays but your example did not have anything to it
>I think you are thinking of char (*argv)[]

Oops, yes, you are absolutely right. The correct notation *should* be (*argv)[].
But, according to K&R, there is such a strong relationship between pointers
and arrays that they really should be treated simultanously (page 93).

				Morten.
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