From owner-cvs-all Thu Feb 8 18:55:39 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8241037B491; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 18:55:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA71103; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 03:55:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Bruce Evans Cc: Mark Murray , Mike Heffner , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/lam lam.c References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 09 Feb 2001 03:55:09 +0100 In-Reply-To: Bruce Evans's message of "Fri, 9 Feb 2001 03:13:28 +1100 (EST)" Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Evans writes: > I hope you mean backing out of the *argv[] -> **argv thing. I normally > use **argv, but both style(9) and the ISO C standard use *argv[]. ...which is totally academic, since as you very well know, arrays decay to pointers when passed as arguments in function calls, and foo[] decays to *foo in function declarations and definitions. No ISO-compliant compiler will differentiate between the two. I use *argv[] myself, but only out of a sense of tradition. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message