Converting FORTRAN to C

[Brandon Allbery the tame hacker on the North Coast]

> Article <277 at lsuc.UUCP>, from msb at lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
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| Sure they do; they just don't take up any memory.  They're pointer-valued
| constants, just as a is itself.  a[2] is a constant, just as if it was
| declared as   int (*a2)[2];  --Why shouldn't it be?

Because, since they LOOK like independent pointers, programmers may (try
to) USE them as independent pointers.  And it can confuse related issues, such
as the use of "environ".  It sure confused ME until I figured out that
they lied about [] usage being identical to *.

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