At 04:39 PM 7/26/01 +0100, you wrote:

>        Actually, `buffer' behaves perfectly consistently if you think of
>it as a constant which happens to have type (char *), just as 1 is a
>constant that happens to have type (int).  The value of the constant
>`buffer' is the address of the start of the array you declared.

I think somebody (the RAmmerman?) had an example where it did *not* behave
as a constant pointer to char.. using sizeof. sizeof() gives the size of the
entire array for an array name, and the size of the pointer for a pointer.

He spoke of array names "decaying" to pointers to char, an interesting
term that is neither in the standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999 (E))
nor in K&R II.

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