----- Original Message -----
From: "Spehro Pefhany" <speff@INTERLOG.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: Tied up with String: OR the String Cheese Incident


> 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.

That is correct.

> 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.

Yes, I used that term, in quotation marks, and was aware it was not a
standard term. I have seen it used to describe what happens however.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems
(contract development of high performance, high function, low-level
software)

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