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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Multidimensional Arrays
Message-ID: <13179@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 24 Aug 88 17:39:29 GMT
References: <8584@ihlpb.ATT.COM> <8585@ihlpb.ATT.COM>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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-In article <8584@ihlpb.ATT.COM> tainter@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Tainter) writes:
->...  As long as only one dimension is unknown C can generate
->code to manipulate the structure without requiring patching at link time.

In article <8585@ihlpb.ATT.COM> gregg@ihlpb.ATT.COM (Wonderly) writes:
-This looks to be a simple ilef vector.  ... or in assembler (as the
-compiler sees it)   int foo[][]     Compiler says OHHHH there are
-missing dimensions, I can't possibly know how to do the multiplication,
-so lets use pointers instead.

This would work---that is, you can come up with a self-consistent system
that does this---but that is not how C is defined.  (Many of you probably
already know this, but it was not made clear in Gregg's article.)
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