pointers to arrays and the '&' operator

[Chris Torek]

In article <3927 at ingr.com> crossgl at ingr.com (Gordon Cross) writes:
>I could not find any explicit reference to this in the standard (admittedly
>I have an old copy) ...

Either your copy is too old or you did not look hard enoguh:

>why am I not permitted to apply the '&' (address of) operator
>directly to an array?

The pANS allows it.  (PCC can be made to allow it by *removing* a few
statements from the compiler.)
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