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Article #4730Re: Two questions - Pointer equality and ...
From: Mark Brader
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 17:27
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 17:27
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> Logically the proper tye of a string literal should be const char*
> rather than char* ...
Actually, the type of a string literal N characters long is char[N+1].
You can see this by using sizeof. ("N characters long" is handwaving,
of course, but good enough for this purpose, I think.)
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Newsgroups: comp.std.c Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!sq!msb From: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader) Subject: Re: Two questions - Pointer equality and ... Message-ID: <1996Jan31.172724.17337@sq.com> Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada References: <4elq8a$j0b@taurus.fccc.edu> <TANMOY.96Jan30150808@qcd.lanl.gov> <9601310155.AA07417@dxmint.cern.ch> <4emonm$kqc@fnclub.fnal.gov> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 17:27:24 GMT