Hello everybody, I am new to the C language can anybody tell me the
diffrence between
char nm[10] and char *nm ?
diffrence between
char nm[10] and char *nm ?
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Re: String function problem
In article <f9e301c2-880a-44f2-a537-e20cfa602dfc@p3 9g2000prm.googl egroups.com>,
Vijay <k.anurag87@yah oo.comwrote:char nm[10]>Hello everybody, I am new to the C language can anybody tell me the
>diffrence between
>char nm[10] and char *nm ?
declares that nm is a variable in which 10 char can be stored.
Space for those 10 characters will be automatically allocated.
You can "really" store characters in the array nm.
char *nm
declares that nm is a variable which can be set to point
to a character and then used to access characters pointed to.
But the only space allocated by the statement is space for the
pointer itself, and that pointer is not initialized to anything
in particular, so until you cause nm to point to some real storage,
this nm cannot be used to access anything.
The above analysis does not apply if these are found in parameter
lists in function declarations: in parameter lists, there is no
difference in meaning, with both meaning that nm is of type
pointer to char.
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Vijay <k.anurag87@yah oo.comwrites:The comp.lang.c FAQ is at <http://www.c-faq.com/>. Section 6 coversHello everybody, I am new to the C language can anybody tell me the
diffrence between
char nm[10] and char *nm ?
arrays and pointers.
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Re: String function problem
On Jun 10, 11:11 am, Vijay <k.anura...@yah oo.comwrote:char foo[10] defines an array of 10 characters. char *bar defines barHello everybody, I am new to the C language can anybody tell me the
diffrence between
char nm[10] and char *nm ?
as a pointer to a character.
Array name without any indexes is the pointer to the first element of
the array. foo points to the first
element i.e foo == &foo[0]. When passed to a function, the array
decays to pointer to first element.
bar can be dynamically allocated memory to contain more than one
characters.
The difference between foo and bar is foo is address of linearly
allocated memory while bar, after mem allocation,
contains the address of linearly allocated memory.
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Re: String function problem
rahul wrote:
There's three exceptions to that:Array name without any indexes is the pointer to the first element of
the array.
N869
6.3.2 Other operands
6.3.2.1 Lvalues and function designators
[#3] Except when it is the operand of the sizeof operator or
the unary & operator, or is a string literal used to
initialize an array, an expression that has type ``array of
type'' is converted to an expression with type ``pointer to
type'' that points to the initial element of the array
object and is not an lvalue. If the array object has
register storage class, the behavior is undefined.
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rahul <rahulsinner@gm ail.comwrote:On Jun 10, 11:11 am, Vijay <k.anura...@yah oo.comwrote:Hello everybody, I am new to the C language can anybody tell me the
diffrence between
char nm[10] and char *nm ?char foo[10] defines an array of 10 characters. char *bar defines bar
as a pointer to a character.Not really, an unadored array name stands for (not is) a pointerArray name without any indexes is the pointer to the first element of
the array.
to the first element of the array in a context where a value is
required. For example in
int a[10];
int *b = malloc( 100 );
a = b;
'a' is not a pointer. First reason is that 'a' appears not in
a position where a value is allowed. Here you need something
you can assign a value to. Second, if 'a' would be a pointer
the assignment would be correct (you can assign a new value
to a pointer) and you could actually change 'a' by assigning
it a new value and suddenly '*a' would be the first value in
the memory 'b' points to while 'a[0]' would still be the value
of the first element of the array. Only someone with a strong
interest in the obfuscated C contest (or a masochist) would
truely enjoy that, I guess;-)
Regards, Jens
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Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:That's not the rule.rahul <rahulsinner@gm ail.comwrote:>>On Jun 10, 11:11 am, Vijay <k.anura...@yah oo.comwrote:>>Hello everybody, I am new to the C language can anybody tell me the
>>diffrence between
>>char nm[10] and char *nm ?>>char foo[10] defines an array of 10 characters. char *bar defines bar
>as a pointer to a character.>>Array name without any indexes is the pointer to the first element of
>the array.
Not really, an unadored array name stands for (not is) a pointer
to the first element of the array in a context where a value is
required.
The implicit conversion is specified
as taking place always, with three exceptions.
(a) is converted to a pointer type in that context.For example in
>
int a[10];
int *b = malloc( 100 );
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a = b;
>
'a' is not a pointer.
That's wrong.First reason is that 'a' appears not in
a position where a value is allowed. Here you need something
you can assign a value to. Second, if 'a' would be a pointer
the assignment would be correct (you can assign a new value
to a pointer) and you could actually change 'a' by assigning
it a new value and suddenly '*a' would be the first value in
the memory 'b' points to while 'a[0]' would still be the value
of the first element of the array.
The standard explicitly states that an array type is not a
"modifiable lvalue", however, even if it didn't:
The conversion of the array type expression to a pointer type,
makes the resulting expression not an lvalue,
which is sufficient to disallow an array type from appearing
as a left assignment operand.
6.3.2 Other operands
6.3.2.1 Lvalues and function designators
[#3] Except when it is the operand of the sizeof operator or
the unary & operator, or is a string literal used to
initialize an array, an expression that has type ``array of
type'' is converted to an expression with type ``pointer to
type'' that points to the initial element of the array
object and is not an lvalue.
6.5.16 Assignment operators
[#2] An assignment operator shall have a modifiable lvalue
as its left operand.
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pete
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