argc[argv]

[edhall%rand-unix at sri-unix.UUCP]

In C the addition of an integer to a  pointer  implicitly  does  the
multiplication you attempt to do explicitly (i.e., your example ends
up doing the multiplication twice).  This follows from the rules for
C pointer arithmetic, in which adding to a pointer works in units of
N bytes, where N is the size of the object pointed to. (Look  it  up
in  K  &  R...)  The  equivalence  of  a[i] and *(a+i) works for all
pointers `a' and integer types `i'.

Perhaps you were confused by the  need  for  the  multiplication  in
assembler-language programming.

		-Ed Hall
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