Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:7600 comp.lang.fortran:476 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!mordor!sri-spam!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!agate!ig!uwmcsd1!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ut-sally!ut-emx!reeder From: reeder@ut-emx.UUCP (William P. Reeder) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Conformant Arrays in C Message-ID: <992@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 26 Feb 88 20:23:46 GMT References: <42529@sun.uucp> <7297@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1491@tekcae.TEK.COM> Organization: University of Texas Computation Center Lines: 13 Keywords: ANSI C Fortran Summary: please don't cross post this to comp.lang.fortran In article <1491@tekcae.TEK.COM>, kurtk@tekcae.TEK.COM (Kurt Krueger) writes: > 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). Since no one else has had the gumption to say it, I will. Can this discussion continue without cross-posting to comp.lang.fortran? I know it started out as a discussion of what fortran could learn from C, but it has long since deviated to be a pure C discussion. Thanks.