Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 20:11:53 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Mike Heffner <mikeh@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/lam lam.c Message-ID: <200102090411.f194BrU05440@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <200102090300.f1930KJ19028@earth.backplane.com>
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Matt Dillon wrote: > :Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> 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 And it is your fault that I picked up the ac, **av habit too :-). Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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