Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Feb 2001 11:40:18 -0500 | From | Jeremy Jackson <> | Subject | Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix? |
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Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le 20 Feb 2001 02:10:12 +0100, Andreas Bombe a écrit : > > > > An array is a word that contains the address of the first element. > > No. Exercise 3: compile and run this: > file a.c: > char array[] = "I'm really an array"; > > file b.c: > extern char* array; > main() { printf("array = %s\n", array); } >
try file b.c extern char array; main() { printf("array= %s\n", &array); }
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> > ... and watch it biting the dust ! > in short: an array is NOT a pointer.
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