More prototype questions...

[David Keppel]

I hate to hash this out again, but I have a dpANS-related questions
about the difference between a pointer to an object and the name of
an array of objects.

When I run gcc with all the dpANS flags (-ansi -pedantic), it
complains about functions that are prototyped as

	f (char s[]);

and used as

	static char *x = "honk";
	foo (x);

I think I understand the difference between the array name and a
ponter to objects in the array: the array name is the address of an
object that is the size of the entire array, while a pointer to the
first element of the same array is a pointer to an object the size
of an *element* in the array.

Perhaps I'm answering my own question here, but I don't see why this
distiction causes problems for the prototypes.  Can somebody please
explain?

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