Help me cast this!: Ultrix 2.x bug

[Chris Torek]

>>In article <386 at m3.mfci.UUCP> root at mfci.UUCP (SuperUser) wrote:
>>>... "type (*)[...]" and "type **" are clearly incompatible types....
>>>However, pcc compilers [without Guy Harris's fix, or equivalent]
>>>don't give a warning, and I was once told that Dennis Ritchie considers
>>>it to be perfectly legal C.

>In article <11371 at mimsy.UUCP> I asked:
>>Told by whom?

In article <392 at m3.mfci.UUCP> root at mfci.UUCP (SuperUser) answered:
>By Bjarne Stroustrup, whom I assume simply asked him.

Well, at least we have Big Names :-) .  Perhaps Dennis has changed his
mind since then, or maybe we just disagree.

[rest deleted; read the parent article.]

In any case, the draft proposed standard makes `type (*)[N]' and
`type **' different types, and treats &array (where array is declared
with `type array[N]') as a value of type `type (*)[N]', which is the
way root at mfci.UUCP and I both think things should be.
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