Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 17:08:05 -0500 Message-ID: <4E73C8C7.193A@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:08:07 -0400 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Address of array && address of pointer to array References: <285449fe-33f9-4c81-893d-1d9349da0e95@x11g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <0.043e10b933bc7ff0fade.20110914144111BST.87sjnzz1fs.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <4E720A7B.2010401@verizon.net> <4E72516D.5E80@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 16 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.156.228.129 X-Trace: sv3-7OzYl+6RA9OG/pCSK6O9aW9QD2eCx+l3JUl+8kcBMlh9+9ImipPzqxWMNtQnYD1GL4SvsxrPWWaPp7q!KW/PJa2i9rVF/L6eAEf0d/+VOlDcSdig4ctrkXXlC1pfP0x6fkhPy0KYnXJB+sH3A1/Y/g7eDvtN!VKKyuN9hmVg= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1797 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:10357 Keith Thompson wrote: > > Stanley Rice writes: > > For example, a pointer points to type int > > means that 4 bytes of memory > > is in the charge of the pointer, and a pointer points to type char > > means that 1 byte of memory is in the charge of the pointer. > > Pretty much, though I'm not sure what "in the charge of" means > here. ITHM "pointed to by" -- pete