From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: char **argv vs. char *argv[]
Date:	Thu, 12 Jun 1997 08:48:27 -0700
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Gil Myers wrote:

> They are both the same thing.  The array syntax is interchangable with
> pointer
> arithmetic.  Or at least should be if the compiler in question follows
> the
> language
> at all.

Be careful with such statements.  Arrays and pointers are _not_ the same
thing.  In function arguments, however, an argument of array type is
silently treated as an argument of pointer type.  So char **argv and char
*argv[] are precisely the same.

That only applies to function arguments, however; arrays and pointers are
different entities.

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