Probably an easy or dumb question

[Dwight Kelly]

In article <1949 at leah.Albany.Edu> rds95 at leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals) writes:
>Hello frenz, is it workable to pass only the base address of an array
>to "?scanf" and have it convert into successive memory locations?
>
>int    d[4];
>
>scanf("%d %d %d %d", d);
>

Not possible.  Scanf reads the variable addresses off of the stack.  In your
example, it would get the address of d[0] and then get three random addresses
for the next three %d.

One solution is:
  scanf("%d %d %d %d", &d[0], &d[1], &d[2], &d[3]);

or:

  int i;
  for (i=0; i<4; i++)
    scanf("%d", &d[i]);

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