On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 04:44, Dave Korn wrote: > But I'm curious now: doesn't the array reference degenerate to a pointer > like it would if you passed it to a function that requires a pointer to > whatever type the array is of? Either way, it still fails. He was trying to use the value of the array, so if the address got loaded into the register then it would fail at run time. -- Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com