[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Michael Kraemer]

toby schrieb:
> On Dec 16, 9:40 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 
>>toby wrote:
>>
>>>In a standard C compiler where mystring is an array,
>>>mystring  ,  &mystring  ,  or  &mystring[0]  are all the same pointer.
>>
>>In ANSI C, &mystring is not accepted.
> 
> 
> My gcc 4.1.2 with -ansi -pedantic accepts it. It always gives a
> warning, "assignment from incompatible pointer type".
> 
> e.g.
>     char a[], *p;
>     p = &a;
> 

which seems correct, IMHO.
p is of type "char *",
&a is of type "char **".
So mystring and &mystring are not the same,
mystring and &mystring[0] are.