On 2 Sep 2007 13:56:13 -0000, hjl at lucon dot org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does bar get back to? Are you saying if a pointer is passed to bar, > it can get back to any original struct where the pointer is a field?
It only matters at the context at the point bar is called with the struct. No other place matters. It does not matter if bar can be called with a simple array (that will cause undefined code if bar tries to go before the array) as it still can be using pointer arithmetic.