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From: peter@sugar.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: swaps with arrays
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Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 16:22:07 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 16 16:22:07 1987
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> It is true that the semantics of the assignment of arrays is obvious and
> straightforward (I think -- there may be some traps hiding there somewhere).
> This is beside the point.  The point is that C doesn't support it.

Snap! The size of an array is not always known to the compiler.

For example:

extern char *sys_errlist[];
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