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From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Numerical Recipes is non-portable code
Message-ID: <8417@smoke.ARPA>
Date: 2 Sep 88 07:53:38 GMT
References: <557@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <557@accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> rob@kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rob Carriere) writes:
>Peace now?

Sure; why not?

>Several people have suggested that for these cases one either carries
>the address arithmatic through the code, or accesses the arrays
>through a function that does the arithmatic for you.

Or you can allocate an extra element and go ahead and use 1-based
indexing.  Nobody is forcing you to use the [0] element of an array.
It is seldom that the small amount of wasted space would matter.