On Aug 15, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
It would be if pointers and arrays were the same thing in C. Only
they’re
not, quite. Which somewhat defeats the point of trying to make them
look the
same, don’t you think?
How are they not the same?
The code snippet (in C/C++) below is valid, so arrays are just
pointers. The only difference is that the notation x[4] reserves space
for 4 (consecutive) ints, and the notation *y doesn't.
int x[4];
int *y = x;
Moreover, the following is valid (though unsafe) C/C++:
int *x;
int y = x[4];
Cheers, Roald
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