From owner-cvs-all Thu Feb 8 19: 1:19 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6088D37B65D; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 19:00:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f1930KJ19028; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 19:00:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 19:00:20 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200102090300.f1930KJ19028@earth.backplane.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Bruce Evans , Mark Murray , Mike Heffner , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/lam lam.c References: 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 I stopped using argc and *argv[] the day I switched to ac and **av. I got tired of typing it in every time I wrote a little program :-) -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message