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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: conversion
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 17:10:44 +0000 (UTC)
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Andrew <andrew@carroll-tech.net> wrote:
: For instance:  a variable of type char * can be used as char * or as char []
: and char []
: can be used as char *.

As an aside, Ada's strings might turn out to be helpful in situations
like

  char s[SZ];
  // ...
  char* t = (char*)malloc(100);
  // ...
  strncpy(s, t, SZ);

for a few reasons.


georg