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From: gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon)
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Subject: Re: prototyping (oh no! not again??)
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	Given that you are passing an n-dimensional array to a function, you
*MUST* explicitly provide at least n-1 of the dimensions in the argument
declaration.

	For example:

		if my_array is a 4-dimensional array, you *must* explicitly
provide at least 3 of the dimensions when you pass my_array to a function.

	main()
	{
	  int my_array[6][5][4][3];
	  .
	  .
	  .
	}


	function_one(int array[6][5][4][])
	{
	  .
	  .
	  .
	}

	Note: There is a rule that governs which dimension may be left out; I
think it is one of the end ones, but I am not sure which one.



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John Gordon
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