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Re: Array-as-pointer Syntax

From Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Array-as-pointer Syntax
Date 2019-03-29 06:23 +1300
Message-ID <gg4e83Far11U15@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 29/03/2019 06:04, David T. Ashley wrote:
> Given:
> 
>    int x[1000];
> 
> what is the difference between:
> 
>     memset(x, 0, sizeof(x));
> 
> and
> 
>     memset(&x, 0, sizeof(x));
> 
> I would think there is NO difference, but I might be missing something ...

Check for yourself!

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
   int x[111];
   printf( "%p %p\n", x, &x);
}

-- 
Ian.

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Array-as-pointer Syntax "David T. Ashley" <dashley@gmail.com> - 2019-03-28 10:04 -0700
  Re: Array-as-pointer Syntax Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-03-28 17:18 +0000
    Re: Array-as-pointer Syntax David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-03-28 21:31 +0100
  Re: Array-as-pointer Syntax Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2019-03-29 06:23 +1300
    Re: Array-as-pointer Syntax James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-28 12:09 -0700
      Re: Array-as-pointer Syntax Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2019-03-29 08:21 +1300
      Re: Array-as-pointer Syntax Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2019-03-28 22:59 +0000
        Re: Array-as-pointer Syntax James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-28 17:44 -0700
    Re: Array-as-pointer Syntax Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-03-28 20:12 +0000
  Re: Array-as-pointer Syntax James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-28 11:57 -0700
    Re: Array-as-pointer Syntax Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-28 13:57 -0700
      Re: Array-as-pointer Syntax James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-03-28 19:50 -0400
  Re: Array-as-pointer Syntax Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-03-28 14:04 -0700
  Re: Array-as-pointer Syntax John Bode <jfbode1029@gmail.com> - 2019-03-29 07:24 -0700
    Re: Array-as-pointer Syntax Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2019-03-29 18:08 +0000

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