Re: Is this the ultimate stack-smash fix?

[Jeremy Jackson]

Xavier Bestel wrote:

> Le 20 Feb 2001 02:10:12 +0100, Andreas Bombe a écrit :
> >
> > An array is a word that contains the address of the first element.
>
> No. Exercise 3: compile and run this:
> file a.c:
> char array[] = "I'm really an array";
>
> file b.c:
> extern char* array;
> main() { printf("array = %s\n", array); }
>

try file b.c
extern char array;
main() { printf("array= %s\n", &array); }

?

>
> ... and watch it biting the dust !
> in short: an array is NOT a pointer.