Correction, a[33]

[Karl Heuer]

In article <2737 at helios.ee.lbl.gov> envbvs at epb2 (Brian V. Smith) writes:
>In article <17763 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:

That's a misattribution; I wrote the text in question.

>>pointing to nothing dereferencable;
>What does "dereferencable" mean?

In C, unary "&" is the referencing operator; its inverse, unary "*", is the
dereferencing operator.  To "dereference" is to retrieve what a pointer points
to.  Certain pointer values, e.g. a null pointer or the overlast element of an
array, are not dereferencable.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
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(The "overlast" element of an array a of size N is the ficticious element
a[N], which, if it existed, would follow the last element, a[N-1].  This is my
own terminology.)