What does this quote about char pointers mean?

Question

I\'ve read a paragraph but I can\'t understand what does it mean....can anyone please explain? the paragraph is :

processing a single character as a cha

Answer 1

I'd dump the book or whereever you got that quote from. What is probably meant is you shouldn't try something like this:

char c = 'a';
strcmp(&c,"a"); // might accidentally work on some systems, but behaviour is undefined