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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: C Programming Tutorial on Youtube
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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
> On Saturday, October 15, 2016 at 3:09:38 AM UTC+1, Richard Damon wrote:
>> On 10/11/16 9:55 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> IF you want a constant pointer to a 'buffer' of ints:
>> 
>> int buffer[1024][
>> 
>> int * const pointer = buffer;
>> 
>> 
>> pointer now IS a constant pointer to the array buffer. accessable int by 
>> int.
>>
> Yes, but you almost never need to do that. It's not something you are
> likely to see in any real code. The reason is that the identifier
> "buffer" is an alias for the identifier "pointer", to all intents and
> purposes, minus a few quirks which hardly matter and are glitches or
> infelicities in the C language anyway.

No, "buffer" is the name of an array object, and "pointer" is the name
of a pointer object.  The behavior of the expressions `sizeof buffer`
and `&buffer` are not "quirks which hardly matter".  They are the result
of rules that are fundamental to a correct understanding of how arrays
and pointers work in C.

Please stop this nonsense..

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
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