2009/9/23 Luke Benstead <kaz...@gmail.com>: > If it IS the case that this doesn't cause a crash and is perfectly > valid, can someone explain to me how/why this works? Or point me (no > pun intended) to the bit in the C spec that explains it? Coz the way I > read it, it has to dereference dmW, otherwise how would the compiler > find the address of the array? ... so confused :)
I believe it's because the array (as a pointer) is at the same location as start of the struct (as a pointer). Compiler then applies pointer arithmetic without dereferencing.
