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		CobrastanJorji on July 26, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Remotely Compromising Android and iOS via a bug in... I assume they mean that C's support for "arrays" is essentially just C's support for pointer arithmetic plus a mapping of a[b] to *(a+b).

Kubuxu on July 26, 2017 | [–]

You can even swap it a[b] equivalent to b[a].

shitgoose on July 27, 2017 | [–]

shouldn't it be:

* (a + b * sizeof(T))

where T is array elements' type?

astrange on July 27, 2017 | [–]

That's implied in + on a pointer. uint32_t* + 1 actually adds 4.

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