Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:01:18 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Benjamin D Chambers <chambersb AT juno DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Custom Stack?
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On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Benjamin D Chambers wrote:

> >buf+40 is not the same as &buf[10], because of pointer arithmetics 
> >rules.  &buf[10] is the same as buf+10 or (char *)buf + 40.
> >
> Except that buf is an int *, and each int is 4 bytes, right?  So wouldn't
> that make it buf + 40?  Or does gcc automagically * size_of (or whatever)?

Of course, it does.  Every C compiler does that.  That's what I meant 
when I said ``pointer arithmetics rules''.