Re: [PATCH] bitops cleanup 2/4

Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Thu, 4 Apr 2002 12:02:09 +1000


On Wed, 03 Apr 2002 14:48:08 +0200
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:

> gcc is correct. "&array" and "array" are different. While they represent
> the same address, the types are not compatible. Eg. for "int array[5]"
> the type of "array" is "int [5]" (decaying to "int *" in most contexts),
> but the type of "&array" is "int (*)[5]" (pointer to array of 5 ints).

Ah, of course. Thankyou the clue contribution. I should have thought
harder in the first place.

(To the audience) Patch, of course, is still correct..
Rusty.

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