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From: bowman@reed.UUCP (Eric Bowman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: List Manager Strangeness
Message-ID: <14318@reed.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 90 08:01:30 GMT
References: <20392@bellcore.bellcore.com> <10841@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <3039@draken.nada.kth.se>
Reply-To: bowman@reed.UUCP (Eric Bowman)
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <3039@draken.nada.kth.se> d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) writes:
>In article <10841@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>
>>		LGetCell(&listText,&dataLen,theCell,localList);
>>		listText[dataLen] = 0;
>>		if ( strcmp(&theText,&listText) == 0)
>
>listText is declared as char *, right ? So when you do LGetCell,
>you get a char pointer, and you dereference it with offset dataLen.

Right.

>The problem is, why do you send the address of this pointer to strcmp ?

Right again.

>thing (in fact, you cannot take the address of an array in C...)
        ^^^^^^^
I don't think fact is the right word to use here...since this statement
has nothing to do with truth.

>or am i riding alone in never-never land again ?

Pretty much.

This is legitimate:

	char a[5],b[5],c[5],*d[3];

	d[0]=&a;
	d[1]=&b;
	d[2]=&c;

	<blah, blah, blah>

The beauty of C is no matter what weird and potentially pointless thing
you want to do, you can do it.

BobO
bowman@reed.{bitnet,UUCP}
"*or she.  Masculine pronouns in this book are usually not intended to
connote gender.  Occasional chauvinistic comments are not to be
taken seriously."  - Donald E. Knuth, _The Art of Computer Programming_, vol 1

	
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