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fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus James HENDERSON) writes:
>Do same considerations would apply if you tried to use a char[5][5] 
>array as a char[25] array?

Actually, I don't think that they do, because along the path to doing this
screwing around you go through a (char *).

>From what you're saying, the reason that casting the return
>value from malloc succeeds is only because malloc is "magic".

I think the magic of pointer-to-char comes into play too.  Any object can be
traversed by pointers-to-char.  So in your example, in my opinion, you're ok
because the dubious operation occurs with pointers-to-char.

Note that you're even guaranteed that the "sizeof" of a char[5][5] array is
exactly 25, because sizeof(char) has to be 1 and an array 5 of something has to
be exactly 5 times the "sizeof".