"array" vs. "&array" ?

[Chris Torek]

In article <2368 at ektools.UUCP> randolph at ektools.UUCP (Gary L. Randolph) writes:
>3.) ANSI extended the language definition to allow taking the 
>    address of an array name, so an ANSI conformant compiler will
>    now (correctly) yield pointer to array of T, or pointer to
>    pointer to T.

There is no `or' about it!  The result is a pointer to an array, NOT
a pointer-to-pointer.  The two types are completely different.

POINTERS AND ARRAYS ARE NOT NOW AND NEVER HAVE BEEN EQUIVALENT IN C.

There are a few special cases under which an object of type `array
N of T' is converted to a value of type `pointer to T', and under which
a declaration of type `array N of T' is converted to a declaration of
type `pointer to T'.  This does not make the types equivalent.  They
are not interchangeable.
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