Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Ian Collins Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Problem with array objects Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 09:32:52 +1200 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <94d804Fr2iU2@mid.individual.net> References: <948694Fmt0U1@mid.individual.net> <7EWDp.21826$m_1.16265@newsfe22.ams2> <8YadndAUkrEr233QnZ2dnUVZ8uKdnZ2d@giganews.com> <94b0pmFr1qU1@mid.individual.net> <36ZDp.7023$Tw4.2271@newsfe26.ams2> <94b8rkFr1qU2@mid.individual.net> <94d3qqFr1qU5@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net mwzh4gmbOfqF/yWlZOjSSQed1gen/f1nvWgyMvbmtmf9rqQban Cancel-Lock: sha1:xL0qvV+SOC5vR/fHlNnkuwwVdL8= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20101021 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.4 In-Reply-To: Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c++:5783 On 05/29/11 09:04 AM, Paul wrote: > "Ian Collins" wrote: >> On 05/28/11 11:24 PM, Paul wrote: >>> >>> This confirms that _arr$ is an offset, which is used to create a memory >>> address. Therefore it's a pointer. >> >> No it isn't. It's no more a pointer than the 1 in *(p+1) = 0; > > No its more like: > const int offset_to_array = 1; > (p+offset_to_array) So offset_to_array is a pointer and 1 isn't? Interesting. -- Ian Collins