Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 13:44:39 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Proper use of the & operator
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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, John M. Aldrich wrote:

> >     memset(&strbuf, 0, 13);
> 
> Many compilers seem to have no problem with that construct; taking the
> address of an array label has the same semantic meaning as using the
> array label itself.  However, the type of the pointer is open to
> question.

AFAIK, &array is perfectly legal in ANSI C, and yields a pointer to
the array, so it is the same as &array[0].