Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: absence of max
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 23:11:22 -0800
Organization: None to speak of
Lines: 28
Message-ID: <lnh96qahgl.fsf@kst-u.example.com>
References: <0e1db67d-0ab8-4971-a319-8aa66a40b873@googlegroups.com> <ba1ad958-e691-444c-959c-aa78244a0452@googlegroups.com> <o1d8rg$pn3$1@dont-email.me> <c3e70455-c1f5-46ee-aa2e-0ab54c603f61@googlegroups.com> <o1f2js$7sr$1@dont-email.me> <cefcbabd-ddcd-4f87-ac64-c99c53a828e9@googlegroups.com> <436aadfe-20e5-4349-bdf4-9bac145b0d7e@googlegroups.com> <e22bbfbe-249b-44e8-806d-f29802be04c6@googlegroups.com> <o1hujs$md0$1@dont-email.me> <87oa0zi280.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <o1ii3h$pa$1@dont-email.me> <ab57d717-f912-4199-884f-88d74d425057@googlegroups.com> <o1il51$8rj$1@dont-email.me>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="a5363bb21fe375e056a99c05fd10e589"; logging-data="16729"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/QPVTGbPpOl+psmStDcXgg"
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:FLhpzarIH+hPnD6HHT57GHj3pW0= sha1:oY1ajhRdq25ouGkfX7mjgWb2psw=
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:97708

BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
> On 29/11/2016 01:02, supercat@casperkitty.com wrote:
[...]
>> Given the code:
>>
>>     int a[5];
>>     int *b = a+5;
>>
>> to what object would b point?
>
> To the value 1638280? (According to one attempt I made to print *b).

"the value 1638280" is not an object.

[...]

> My objection, a few posts back, was about being able to do b[i], or 
> treating b like an array. To someone coming from a difference language, 
> that sounds like asking for trouble.

To someone who knows C, it's perfectly ordinary.  To someone who
pretends not to know C, it's an opportunity to whine.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"