From owner-cvs-all Thu Feb 8 20:12:59 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E7F37B4EC; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 20:12:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f194BrU05440; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 20:11:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200102090411.f194BrU05440@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Matt Dillon Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Bruce Evans , Mark Murray , Mike Heffner , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/lam lam.c In-Reply-To: <200102090300.f1930KJ19028@earth.backplane.com> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 20:11:53 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matt Dillon wrote: > :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 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