Speaking of ksh

[Root Boy Jim]

   From: Doug Gwyn  <gwyn at brl-smoke.arpa>

   In article <3870001 at hpcuhb.HP.COM> kluft at hpcuhb.HP.COM (Ian Kluft) writes:
   >I've seen malloc() bomb many times on an AT&T 3B5 at CSU Chico when people
   >used char [] and char * interchangeably across function calls.  These have
   >been considered equivalent in all the C texts way back to K&R but, in reality,
   >at least AT&T's C compiler cannot always swallow it.

   Wait a doggone minute.  An array has NEVER been equivalent to a pointer.
   The NAME of an array, when used in an expression, is (in MOST cases, but
   not all) converted to a pointer to its initial member.

Really. Given char *foo; and char bar[] = "something";, foo is a *variable*
while bar is a *constant*. Take two chapters of K&R and don't call me
in the morning.

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