bartc <b...@freeuk.com>: > Bear in mind C allows you to do this: > > int *A[10]; // array of pointers to int > int (*B)[10]; // pointer to array of int > int i; > > *A[i]; // index then deref to get the int > (*B)[i]; // deref then index to get the int > > That's fine so far: one is an array of pointers, other is a pointer to > an array. However, you can also do this: > > (*A)[i]; // deref an array then index > *B[i]; // index a pointer then deref > > which is wrong, and can crash the program. A compiler however will not > detect it as it is perfectly legal, meanwhile it will deluge you with > hundreds of pointless warnings.
Never in my decades of C programming did I run into such crashes. C is a fine programming language. Pascal would have made a better one, but C is just fine. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
