From 8f28988793600a9f64de89d87de6df8f2ba602ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 20:27:06 +0200
Subject: C-STYLE: *x vs x[0]

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 C-STYLE.md | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'C-STYLE.md')

diff --git a/C-STYLE.md b/C-STYLE.md
index e7921cd..7119800 100644
--- a/C-STYLE.md
+++ b/C-STYLE.md
@@ -112,10 +112,13 @@ but merely how to format it.
 
 * Initialize zeroed structs using `= { 0 }`.
 
-* Prefer `x+i` over `&x[i]`.
-
 * Prefer `i++` over `++i`.
 
+* Prefer `*x` over `x[0]`
+  (unless the same code also accesses `x[1]`, `x[2]` etc.)
+
+* Prefer `x+i` over `&x[i]`.
+
 * Do not use `NULL`.  Use `0` for null pointers.
   Remember to use `(char *)0` as a sentinel for execl(3).
 
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