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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: C++ features for C
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bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 15/05/2018 16:19, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> bartc <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
>>> (My compiler tells me the first is 'unsigned char**' and the second is
>>> 'unsigned char*'.)
>> 
>> There is no "may" here -- they are of expressions of different types.
>> The first type has type char (*)[4], not unsigned char **, and the
>> second has type char *.  I'm not sure where the unsigned comes from in
>> your case.
>
> The special exception for & was not being applied to "...", as it is for 
> sizeof, so it just wrapped an extra pointer level around "...".
>
> The unsigned char is because I deliberately don't support plain char; it 
> must be either signed or unsigned rather than unspecified, and I chose 
> to make it unsigned.

Please make it clear when you're talking about a language than C.

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