Declaration Question

[William Setzer IDM]

In article <1242 at atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu> hascall at atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (John Hascall) writes:
>In article <394> setzer at nssdcs (William Setzer (IDM)) writes:
>> [Stuff I said]
>   "char *foo[K][N]" is "array K of array N of pointer to char" which doesn't
>   match your picture, how about "char (*foo[K])[N]" which is "array K of
>   pointer to array N of char" which seems to match your picture
I thought that things adjacent to a name had priority over things farther
away, ie, '*foo[][]' = '(*(foo[]))[]'.  Oh well, I guess I'd better check
again.
>   and you will need to malloc the K sets of "N chars" yourself
Then that means that if you say 'char (*foo[K])[N]', then at best the
'[N]' part is lint fodder (no offense to lint intended).  What's the point?
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William Setzer
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