From: Dave Tweed <dtweed AT acm DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: gdb problem or just silly me - please help
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 12:55:09 -0400
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"nimrod a. abing" wrote:
> Now in most C books, they say `char **string_array' is equivalent to
> `char *string_array[]'.

Only when passed as a parameter to a function, because arrays are always
passed by reference. For example, you'll find both
    int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { ... }
and
    int main (int argc, char **argv) { ... }

-- Dave