Another silly question

[Farrell Woods]

In article <2459 at nmtsun.nmt.edu> kelly at titan.nmt.edu (Sean Kelly) writes:

>My CS instructor and I disagree about a certain moot point.  I have a text
>book which says that

>	*(a + i)	and	a[i]

>are equivalent, given an array a, and int index i ... each gives the
>value stored in a[i].  But he says that

>	*(a + i)

>is non-standard and would not expect it do go far on all _real_ C compilers

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>What do you think?

I think your Sun and your Vax are better authorities on C than your instructor.
So are you, for that matter.  If the Sun and Vax compilers aren't "real" in
your instructors terms, whaich compilers are?

What you describe is simple pointer math.

Find a K&R 1 and have your instructor start reading at the paragraph beginning
near the top of page 94.

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