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Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by WalterBright on Saturday May 23, 2020 @05:23PM (#23286591)
Arrays in C (once passed to functions) are pointers, even when they use array syntax:

https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html

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Re:The Ten Commandments for C Programmers (1987) by klyrs on Saturday May 23, 2020 @08:51PM (#23288095)
You don't need arrays for the code I was describing: it's a nested for-loop on 4 ints.

But, yeah, that's a really common mistake.

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