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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Conformant Arrays in C
Message-ID: <7319@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 22 Feb 88 19:51:44 GMT
References: <42529@sun.uucp> <7297@brl-smoke.ARPA> <676@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <7314@brl-smoke.ARPA> <929@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: ANSI C Fortran

In article <929@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
-   How about matrix assignment (a = b).  If you have matrices
-contiguously in memory you can do a "single" bcopy to move the data.
-The optional representation doesn't allow this.

We weren't proposing to make [][] objects have non-contiguous storage.