c programming style

[Jordan K. Hubbard]

In article <935 at teddy.UUCP> rdp at teddy.UUCP (Richard D. Pierce) writes:
>
>One of the points with the C i++ versus i = i = 1 issue is the one of
>pointers (although some alluded to it).
>
>	  argv++;
>
>This will get us to the next pointer, whereas,
>
>	  argv = argv + 1;
>
>will NOT (unless by the happy happinstance that a pointer is exactly
>the same size as a character!)


Note that I have not included enough of this gentleman's article to
fully outline his assertions, but in a nutshell, he claims that
pointer arithmetic does not work unless the unary operators are
applied. Um, I don't knoe which compiler HE'S using, but it must
be severely braindamaged (someone's thesis project?). According
to K&R and every C compiler I've ever used, this is simply not true.
pointer = pointer + 1 works fffffffffineee..

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