&array[0] vs array

Ruben Safir ruben at mrbrklyn.com
Thu Mar 30 09:04:35 EDT 2017


On 03/29/2017 08:30 PM, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> Does the kernel community have a preference when using the address of
> the first element of an an array?
> 
> 1. addr = &array[0]
> 2. addr = array;
> 
> $ grep '\&.*\[0\]' | wc -l
> 10077
> 
> style (1) is clearly used, I was not able to grep for instances where
> style (2) is used.

maybe there is a another reason why 2 is not used.

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