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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Divide and C
Message-ID: <29656:Mar3120:36:2791@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 31 Mar 91 20:36:27 GMT
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In article <b7mN01vS4cVi00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> lamont@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Duane Richard LaMont) writes:
> 	++((int *) array)[val];
> However, if your program uses arrays of pointers to arrays of
> integers, the above won't work and there is no counterpart solution.

This is a common argument of Fortran programmers against the common C
trick of keeping a table of pointers to each row of an array. It's an
incorrect argument. You can allocate the array contiguously, and use the
pointer to the first row *exactly* the same way as ``array'' in the
above example.

(Btw, I'm not accusing you of being a Fortran programmer. :-) )

---Dan