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To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/lam lam.c 
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Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 21:22:03 -0700
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <xzplmrgftv6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
: ...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.

Some compilers will warn of a pedantic mismatch.  But I don't think
gcc is one of them.  Besides style(9) is explicit on this.  If it
wasn't, then we could use **argv.

Warner


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