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Re: Errrr... You know what I am speaking about.

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at ya?oo.co?> Sep 26, 2007
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Ricardo Forno wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> Yesterday I was debugging a C program. The program contained these lines:
> 
> short Buffer[NCOD][BUFSIZE][NDIFF];
> ............
> short (*b)[BUFSIZE][NDIFF];
> ............
> int j;
> b = Buffer[j];
> 
> This failed, and I did not understand why.
> C, when it deals with pointers, is sometimes a pain in the neck. But instead
> of blaming the language, the compliler, its cryptic messages and so on, I
> started
> to scratch my head, and after a while I found my error, corrected it, and got
> the program running.
> What has this to do with this forum?
> Well, I hope you understand.
> Best regards.
> Regards.

Yes, I think I *do* know what you are talking about. What was the error, BTW?
The parentheses around *b?

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