RE: [Dev-C++] One other minor problem

[Ioannis V. <iv...@at...>]

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> Of Shane Plesner
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 4:31 AM
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> Subject: [Dev-C++] One other minor problem
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> I also have one other minor problem.
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> Though I have looked through over 16 different manuals and=20
> tutorials, and have searched over 50 websites I cannot seem=20
> to find out the difference between
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> char* foo;
> char *foo;
> char* *foo;
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> >From my own expirements (purposely generating compiler=20
> errors) it appears to me that the first two are identical. =20


Yes they are.



> They both seem to declare foo to be a variable of type char*.=20
>  The second seems to declare foo a pointer to type char*.

The third. Yes, it is a pointer to char *. Or a pointer to pointer to =
char.


>  It=20
> also appears to me that type char* is actually a char[] of=20
> dynamic length because I can get string functions to work on=20
> it - just like on char[].


char * points to a char variable. This variable can be part of a =
sequence of
chars (an array) either on the free store either in the automatic =
storage.
But it can also be alone.




Ioannis Vranos
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