Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!network!sdcsvax!ucsdhub!hp-sdd!hplabs!hpl-opus!hpnmdla!hpmwtd!jeffa From: jeffa@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Jeff Aguilera) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Probably an easy or dumb question Message-ID: <680006@hpmwjaa.HP.COM> Date: 10 Aug 89 22:59:58 GMT References: <1949@leah.Albany.Edu> Organization: HP Microwave Tech. - Santa Rosa, Ca. Lines: 16 > Hello frenz, is it workable to pass only the base address of an array > to "?scanf" and have it convert into successive memory locations? > > int d[4]; > > scanf("%d %d %d %d", d); > No. Use scanf("%d %d %d %d", d, d+1, d+2, d+3); For each valid conversion specification other than %%, at least one pointer is consumed from the stack. You pass one pointer, but ask for four conversions. Expect a hung system or dumped core, depending upon available memory protection.