[TUHS] C declarations.

Random832 random832 at fastmail.com
Mon May 15 13:43:39 AEST 2017


On Sun, May 14, 2017, at 20:23, Ron Natalie wrote:
> Actually, it is **Not a pointer**, it gets passed as a pointer, but it is
> an array on both ends.

I'm not sure what you mean by "on both ends". It is a pointer in the
function. sizeof(dst) is 2, not 256, even if it were declared as int
dst[128].

On Sun, May 14, 2017, at 19:34, Arthur Krewat wrote:
> Is it really a kludge? It's a pointer.
> 
> int array[128];
> 
> Want to reference the array in a memcpy? Do: memcpy(destination, array, 
> sizeof(array));

The argument is that that should have to be memcpy(&destination, &array,
sizeof(array)), the same as if you were copying between two structs.



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