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[Norman Diamond]

In article <RANG.89Oct9215608 at derby.cs.wisc.edu> rang at cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) writes:

>There is no difference between "char h[]" and "char *h" in a
>declaration; they do exactly the same thing.

char h[];
h = malloc(27);   /* should generate an error message */

char *h;
h = malloc(27);   /* should work */

Mr. Rang's posting proceeded to give a reasonably correct answer to
someone's question, but this bit of nonsense was a poor start.

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