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From: Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
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Subject: Re: usecases of void foo(char **b) {}
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
<snip>
>> A pointer resolves to the location of a single object (or function).
>> Period.  Said pointer may be used in a larger expression context to access
>> members of a sequence of objects, such as:
>>
>>     a[i]
>>     *(a + i)
>>     *p++
>>
>> etc., but even so, each of those expressions also resolves to a single
>> object (or function) value.  Period.  That's how pointers work.
>
> What happens here then:
>
>   int B[10];
>   int (*Q)[10] = &B;
>
> Q is a pointer. *Q yields one object, true,

You've answered your own question, haven't you?

<snip>
-- 
Ben.