Subj : Re: help on silly code
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : maeder
Date : Sun Sep 12 2004 12:57 pm


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Mark Manning <markem@ev1.net> writes:

> Whereas:
>
> 	double *data[];
>
> Would be a pointer to an array of double values.

No. That defines an array of pointers to double. To define a pointer to an
array, we have to write

double (*data)[];

, because, according to the syntax of C and C++, [] precedes *.


> So the (1,2,3,4) should then work.

This expression always works, but not like what you seem to expect; its
value is 4.

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