begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 05:59:13PM -0700:
> Gabriel Sechan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> >Arrays are always pointers, the asm for the two are identical.
>
> Um, no.
I've always read that "array references decompose into pointers", which
is not the same thing as "arrays are always pointers".
> I suggest "Expert C Programming" by Peter Van Der Linden.
>
> Chapter 4. The Shocking Truth: C Arrays and Pointers are NOT the Same!
Wouldn't compiling a tiny fraction of code to assembly be a quick way
to demonstrate this?
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_ |\_ "int main( int argc, char **argv ) { ... return EXIT_SUCCESS; }"
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