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From: edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt)
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Subject: Re: Conformant Arrays in C
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Date: 26 Feb 88 14:45:20 GMT
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> Look at "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan & Ritchie on p. 110.  If you
> set up your array like  int *b[10]  you can treat it as a conformal 2-d array
> without having to pass ANY bounds information (except for whatever the
> procedure logic requires).


   But you have to access the array as if it where a n by 10 matrix.
This method does not provide for n by m by .... arrays.  At most
you may leave the first dimension (the rows) unspecified.




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Eddie Wyatt 				e-mail: edw@ius1.cs.cmu.edu