Arrays and Pointers to Arrays

[kelvSYC]

What's the difference between arrays and pointers to arrays, in terms
of passing them as parameters to a function?

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[Mike Wahler]

"kelvSYC" <ke*****@no.email.shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:250920032214134485%ke*****@no.email.shaw.ca.. .

What's the difference between arrays and pointers to arrays, in terms
of passing them as parameters to a function?

Arrays cannot be passed to or returned from functions.
Pointers to them (or to one of their elements) can.

-Mike

[Mac]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 04:14:13 +0000, kelvSYC wrote:

What's the difference between arrays and pointers to arrays, in terms
of passing them as parameters to a function?

Check out the FAQ, and if you still have questions after that, repost.

Here's the URL for the top:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html

See in particular:
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q6.13.html
and
http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q6.18.html

HTH

Mac
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