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- From: tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov (Tanmoy Bhattacharya)
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- Subject: Re: Question on argv
- Date: 01 Feb 1996 15:59:01 GMT
- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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- In-reply-to: "David L. McReynolds"'s message of 1 Feb 1996 05:56:40 GMT
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- In article <4epkmo$231@transfer.stratus.com> "David L. McReynolds"
- <David_McReynolds@vos.stratus.com> writes:
- <snip>
- argv is an array of pointers to arrays of chars. Therefore
- you will have to do something like
-
- This is loose wording (but, then, even the standard makes exactly the
- same mistake in at least one place). argv is an array of pointers to
- the first elements of arrays of chars. (Pointers to arrays are
- completely different beasts :-)
-
- Cheers
- Tanmoy
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