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From: rfg@ics.uci.edu (Ronald Guilmette)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: passing arrays to functions
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Date: 3 Jun 90 22:24:40 GMT
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In article <2491@zipeecs.umich.edu> bagchi@sparky.eecs.umich.edu (Ranjan Bagchi) writes:
>
>    I would like to pass an array to a function, foo(bar *a[]).
>Currently, I pass the array by first declaring it...
>
>bar *a[] = {bar *a,bar *b,bar *c,bar *d};
>
>...and then passing it to foo(bar *a[]) with foo(a).
>
>    What I would like to be able to do is avoid the first step and
>just do a ...
>
>foo({bar *a,bar *b,bar *c,bar *d});

The GNU compilers (gcc & g++) allow such an "aggregate constructor" notation.

// Ron Guilmette (rfg@ics.uci.edu)
// C++ Entomologist
// Motto:  If it sticks, force it.  If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.