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[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It could, but not necessarily.

char **args can just mean you have a pointer which points to an address, and at that address, you can get a second address. Follow the second address, there is a char saved there.

On the other hand, char *args[] means " follow this address to find a list of characters".

[–] barubary@infosec.exchange 2 points 1 week ago

@racketlauncher831 As far as the C compiler is concerned, there is literally no difference between those two notations. If you declare a function parameter as an array (of T), the C compiler automatically strips the size information (if any) and changes the type to pointer (to T).

(And if we're talking humans, then char *args[] does not mean "follow this address to find a list of characters" because that's the syntax for "array of pointers", not "pointer to array".)