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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Multidimensional Static Array Initialization Follow-up
Message-ID: <13149@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 23 Aug 88 13:17:39 GMT
References: <2682@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <13060@mimsy.UUCP> <8584@ihlpb.ATT.COM>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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[questions and answers about when array sizes can be elided deleted]

In article <8584@ihlpb.ATT.COM> tainter@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Tainter) writes:
>It isn't just an issue of the initializer.  Consider code referencing the
>above entity foo.  As long as only one dimension is unknown C can generate
>code to manipulate the structure without requiring patching at link time.

The question was about initialised arrays---specifically, about the
cases where the compiler is able to deduce the dimensions.  Hence
*none* of the dimensions are unknown; they are merely left up to the
compiler to count.
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