Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ucsd!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!alice!ark From: ark@alice.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: why p->member ? Message-ID: <8097@alice.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 88 19:25:36 GMT References: <16734@adm.ARPA> <474@sp7040.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ Lines: 28 In article <474@sp7040.UUCP>, jsp@sp7040.UUCP writes: > It needs to be referenced as a pointer. To do that use: > > *p.member > > it is the same as > > p->member I'm going to ignore the original question and merely point out that *p.member means the same as *(p.member) which, in turn, is quite different from p->member In fact, p->member means the same thing as (*p).member