Pointers and Arrays

[Chris Torek]

In article <1329 at laidbak.UUCP> daveb at laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton) writes:
>K&R, Chapter 5, page 98, Paragraph just above last example:
>"Pointer subtraction is also valid: if p and q point to members of the
> same array, p-q is the number of elements between p and q."

This section of K&R is descriptive, not prescriptive.  What does
the appendix have to say?

At any rate, the number of elements `between' p and q (via p-q) in

	+---+---+---+---+
	| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
	+---+---+---+---+
	 q       p

is easily seen as -2, if you just turn your brain around. :-)
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