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Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
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Description |
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Date submitted |
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Page 153
Last 3 paragraphs |
The text (correctly) stresses that the name of an array is implicitly converted to a pointer to the array's first element. Thus, given the following two declarations
int a [10];
int (*arrPtr) [10] = NULL;
it is not possible to make arrPtr point to the array a through a simple assignment:
arrPtr = a; // (1) Error: mismatched pointer types.
However, while the proposed solution – a type-cast to (int (*) [10]) – works, I think it would be simpler (and much easier to understand) to just correct the mismatching pointer types:
arrPtr = &a; // (2) address of a is assignable to arrPtr
Keeping in mind that (*arrPtr)[i] is equivalent to *(*arrPtr + i), it would then be obvious why (*arrPtr)[i] ⇔ *(*&a + i) is syntactically correct, while *(*a + i) – the expression corresponding to case (1) – couldn't possibly be accepted by the compiler.
|
Michael Stumpfl |
Nov 01, 2016 |
| Printed |
Page 187
United States |
Under section "Closing a File".
Replace the word "greater" with "less" in the last sentence of the last paragraph, so that it reads:
'Furthermore, there is a limit to the number of files that a program may have open at one time; the number of allowed open files is less than or equal to the value of the constant FOPEN_MAX.'
|
Ammar James |
Feb 16, 2014 |
| Printed |
Page 323
fgetws code example, line 6 |
The fwide() call is missing the mode parameter. It currently reads:
fwide( fp_in_wide );
It should read:
fwide( fp_in_wide, 1 );
|
Chris Coffey |
May 08, 2017 |