Address of array

[Garry Wiegand]

In a recent article jsdy at hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) wrote:
>...  There is no such thing as a pointer to the whole
>array:  that is a Pasqualische or Fortranian notion.  Pointers, in
>C, only point to atomic or aggregate (structure/union) objects...

Are you sure of this? I sometimes write:
	
	foo (ap) register float (*ap)[4][4]; {... (*ap)[0][0] = 33; ...}

I do this because my compiler (DEC/Vms) ends up making slightly better
use of registers than if I wrote:

	foo (array) float array[4][4]; {... array[0][0] = 33; ...}

(and because it's slightly more pleasing to my brain actually to say "pointer-
to-array" if that's what I'm thinking of). Are you saying my syntax is legal
only by the grace of DEC?

garry wiegand
garry%cadif-oak at cu-arpa.cs.cornell.edu