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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Two dimensional arrays in C
Message-ID: <2215@mmintl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 17:05:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: mmintl.2215
Posted: Thu Jun 25 17:05:09 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 28-Jun-87 05:27:05 EDT
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Summary: ... can't use dummy array bounds

In article <733@cod.UUCP> murphys@cod.UUCP (Steven P. Murphy) writes:
>The following example is what I would like to be able to do. Is it possible ?
>...
>matrix_stuff(a, b, array, x, y);
>
>int a, b, x, y;
>double array[x][y];

No.  Array bounds in C have to be constants.  To do this, you would have to
do the array arithmetic explicitly.  Sorry.
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