Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 19:00:20 -0800 (PST) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: 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: <200102090300.f1930KJ19028@earth.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102090302160.7748-100000@besplex.bde.org> <xzplmrgftv6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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: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
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: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
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