external declarations of ptrs and arrays
George Turczynski
george at hls0.hls.oz
Fri Aug 3 09:04:34 AEST 1990
In article <364 at taumet.com>, steve at taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes:
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> ...
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> "char *temp[20];" means "temp is the first address of an array of 20 chars".
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> ...
What ???
Don't you mean "char *temp[20];" means "temp is the first address of an array of 20 (char *) (pointers)."
Your description implies that 20 bytes of storage are used, but I think you'll find it is very different in reality !
Try this:
/* Cut here */
#include<stdio.h>
char *temp[20];
main()
{
fprintf(stderr,"Size of temp is %d.\n",sizeof(temp));
exit(0);
}
/* Cut here */
This should prove to you that what you said is WRONG.
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