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- From: samurai@uriel.cs.mcgill.ca (Darcy Brockbank)
- Subject: Stupid Answer. (Re: Stupid question: What does ** mean?)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.154043.9535@cs.mcgill.ca>
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- Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- References: <1992Jul23.135419.7435@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:40:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul23.135419.7435@cs.mcgill.ca> samurai@uriel.cs.mcgill.ca
- (Darcy Brockbank) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul22.225838.13892@vlsisj.uucp> smadsen@leland.Stanford.EDU
- > (Steve Madsen) writes:
- > > Here's an easy one. . .I'm stumped by the double asterisk declaration, for
- > example:
- > >
- > > (int **)
- > >
- > > I've tried to locate it in Chapter 3, 6 and 7 of NextStep Concepts, as well
- > as two
- > > different C manuals, so it's not a pure RTFM question (I hope). . .
- > >
- > > Thanks!!
- > >
- > > Steve Madsen
- >
- > It's called a pointer-pointer, or a double pointer. Look out for
- > these guys as well: triple pointers!
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- >
- > So i[][] implies that i is a pointer-pointer to an int. A &i is a
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- This is not correct!!!!! Sorry!!!
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- - db
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