From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: char[] to char*
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 18:16:52 -0400
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Endlisnis wrote:
> 
> richard AT stardate DOT bc DOT ca wrote:
> 
> > >char H[9];char* b;
> > >b = &H[4];
> > or
> >  b =  H + 4;
> 
>      OK, but I am used to Borland, and that won't work there, but it does
> work in DJGPP.

Huh?  Which version of Borland is that?  Pointer arithmetic with array
labels is defined in ANSI C.  For a commercial standard compiler to not
support it would be... strange.

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