From: swarnerx3@acadia.net (Scott Warner) Subject: pointers &arrays[] 21 Nov 1997 19:06:29 -0800 Message-ID: <199711210929.EAA01841.cygnus.gnu-win32@p2.acadia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: In a recent chat room discussion, pointer notation of arrays in C was brought up. The question is, are array names pointers? Is array subscripting another form of pointer notation, or visa-versa? I realize the pointer notation works for everything except sizeof() (and maybe others). So that array == &array[0] array == &array *array == array[0] *(array+n) == array[n] are all true given array[n]. In this case, sizeof(array) returns the size of the entire array, not array[0]. Are there other examples where this pointer notation fails? Lastly, is this pointer notation implementation dependent or is it part of the de facto standard? - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".