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From: Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: sizeof environment variables array = 1?
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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:

> "Anything that looks like an array" is too general, I think. ... if it
> looks like array of T it is treated as to pointer to T.

A totally valid distinction.  I was a bit woolly.