Re: Stroustrup 5.9, exercise 1

From:
"arnuld" <geek.arnuld@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
30 Mar 2007 08:00:46 -0700
Message-ID:
<1175266846.305418.210820@y66g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>

On Mar 30, 7:42 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" <a...@start.no> wrote:
* arnuld:

 // a reference to an array of 10 integers
  char& r_arr_int = arr_int;


What you have above is a reference to char, initialized with an array of
integers.

Apples on one side, oranges on the other side.

This is a reference to an array:

   int (&r_arr_int)[10] = arr_int;


it does not compile:

---------- PROGRAMME -------------
/* Stroustrup, 5.9, exercises

to write declarations with initializers.
comments explain what we intend to do.

*/

#include<iostream>

int main()
{

  // a pointer to a character
  char c1 = 'a';
  char* pc1 = &c1;

  // an array of 10 integers
  const int arr_size = 10;
  char arr_int[arr_size];

  // a reference to an array of 10 integers
  int (&r_arr_int)[arr_size] = arr_int;

  // a pointer to an array of character strings
  /* SORRY but i do not know how to present an array
   of character strings */

  // a pointer to a pointer to a char
  char c;
  char* pc = &c;
  char* ppc = pc;

  // a constant integer
  const int ci = 7;

  // a pointer to a constant integer
  const int* pci = &ci;

  // a constant pointer to an integer
  int j = 8;
  int *const cpi = &j;

  return 0;
}

-------- OUTPUT ----------
[arch@voodo tc++pl]$ g++ 5.9_ex-01.cpp
5.9_ex-01.cpp: In function 'int main()':
5.9_ex-01.cpp:24: error: invalid initialization of reference of type
'int (&)[10]' from expression of type 'char [10]'
[arch@voodo tc++pl]$

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