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Can someone point out the section in the standard where it says arrays
decay and where elements of a multi dimensional array decay into
pointer to ints too? Like int array[10][10]; array[0] decays to
pointer to int. Where is this stated in the standard?
Nov 13 '05 #1
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Mantorok Redgormor wrote:

Can someone point out the section in the standard where it says arrays
decay and where elements of a multi dimensional array decay into
pointer to ints too? Like int array[10][10]; array[0] decays to
pointer to int. Where is this stated in the standard?


N869
6.3.2.1 Lvalues and function designators
[#3] Except when it is the operand of the sizeof operator or
the unary & operator, or is a string literal used to
initialize an array, an expression that has type ``array of
type'' is converted to an expression with type ``pointer to
type'' that points to the initial element of the array
object and is not an lvalue. If the array object has
register storage class, the behavior is undefined.

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pete
Nov 13 '05 #2
On 8 Oct 2003 12:54:42 -0700, ne*****@tokyo.c om (Mantorok Redgormor)
wrote:
Can someone point out the section in the standard where it says arrays
decay and where elements of a multi dimensional array decay into
pointer to ints too? Like int array[10][10]; array[0] decays to
pointer to int. Where is this stated in the standard?


Paragraph 3 of section 6.3.2.1 (in the n869 draft).
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