From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: array of pointers to strings, BC++, DJGPP and weird printing , behavior
Date: 11 Nov 1996 13:54:42 GMT
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Ely Wilson (fletch AT netdoor DOT com) wrote:

: what I don't recognize is that double asterisk..*THAT* I've
: never seen...

If you suffix a type with '*', it becomes a pointer to that type. You can 
suffix pointers with a '*' too, creating a pointer to a pointer to a type.

e.g. char is a char, char * is a pointer to a char, char ** is a pointer 
to a pointer to a char [ C compilers read this as (char *)* ]. You can 
consider any pointer to be an array, so this could also be read as a 
pointer to an array of chars of an array of pointers to chars. It depends 
how the memory is allocated and used. The above example, though, is 
wrong, because it is allocating the size of a char for a pointer, which 
may or may not work, and is not likely to be portable. It's almost certainly 
not what the author intended.

--
George Foot

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