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kaba0 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Lesser known tricks, quirks and features of C

It is, an array and a pointer are different types. There could be ways to convert it to a pointer, but it shouldn’t happen at so many places, implicitly.

teo_zero 3 months ago [–]

Correct. A method to extract a pointer from an array already exists:

  int *p = &arr[0];

The mistake is to allow this:

  int *p = arr;

uecker 3 months ago | [–]

And yet, coding styles do not prohibit it and there is no compiler that has a warning.

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