Re: bitwise comparators

[dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000 18:48:11 GMT, Jeff Carter <jrcarter010@earthlink.net> wrote:
>Keith Thompson wrote:
>> That's a slight exaggeration.  C does have array types and array
>> objects.  For example this:
>>     int a[10];
>> declares a as an array of 10 ints, very much like Ada's
>>     A: array(0 .. 9) of Integer;
>> It does not, contrary to popular misconception, declare a as a
>> pointer.
>
>That would explain why a[0] and *a are different notations for the same
>thing, and a[2], *(a+2), and 2[a] are also different notations for the
>same thing. 

"int a[2];" is not the same as "int *(a+2);" which is not a legal 
declaration.
"extern int *a;" does not work if a is defined as "int a[2];". Just
because the same notation can be used in some circumstaces, and implicit
conversion happens, doesn't mean they are the same thing.

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