Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On 11/22/24 14:05, Dan Cross wrote:

In article <87h67zrtns.fsf@doppelsaurus.mobileactivedefense.com>,
Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@talktalk.net> wrote:...

char **argv
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declares an array of pointers

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No, it declares a pointer to a pointer to char.

Agreed.

(as each pointer in C points to an array)

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That's absolutely not true. A pointer in C may refer to
an array, or a scalar. Consider,
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char c;
char *p = &c;
char **pp = &p;

Not actually relevant. For purposes of pointer arithmetic, a pointer to
a single object is treated as if it pointed at the first element of a
1-element array of that object's type.