begin  quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 06:30:45PM -0700:
> Stewart Stremler wrote:
[snip]
> >Wouldn't compiling a tiny fraction of code to assembly be a quick way
> >to demonstrate this?
> 
> We await your demonstration ...

If I had the book you mentioned, I would have done so already. :)

> The reason why I point to Van Der Linden in esoteric C discussions is 
> that he talks about more cases than you generally think of directly.  In 
> this instance he talks about the difficulties which arise when you 
> declare as array while making a define as pointer and vice versa.
 
?

> Given he has 3 entire chapters about pointers and arrays (Chapter 9 is 
> devoted to when you *can* use pointers and arrays interchangeably), I 
> couldn't possibly remember all the cases.  In fact, I had to wait on 
> responding until I got home and could look things up.

Heh. It's quite tricky stuff.

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