May 15, 2003

decay

n.,vi

[from nuclear physics] An automatic conversion which is applied to most array-valued expressions in C; they ‘decay into’ pointer-valued expressions pointing to the array's first element. This term is borderline techspeak, but is not used in the official standard for the language.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:51 AM

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