What is the difference between char** argv and char* argv[]? in int main(int argc, char** argv) and int main(int argc, char* argv[])?
Are they the same? Especially that the first part does not have [].
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They are entirely equivalent.
char *argv[]must be read as array of pointers tocharand an array argument is demoted to a pointer, so pointer to pointer tochar, orchar **.This is the same in C.