10[25]==35? Really?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <25694 at netcom.COM> avery at netcom.COM (Avery Colter) writes:
>With all this about the #define X1 -10, I find it interesting that
>indexing a constant yields the sum of the constant and the number inside
>the brackets.

It shouldn't.  The definition of a[b] is that it acts like *(a+b) [ignoring
issues of parentheses and operator precedence].  Note the "*" on the front.
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