Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Passing types to a subroutine
Message-ID: <6959@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 17 Nov 88 21:02:02 GMT
References: <14457@mimsy.UUCP> <1988Nov11.183710.22545@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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>>	float	a[100];
>>	subroutine(...., a[100], ...);
>>	double	a[100];
>>	subroutine(...., a[100], ...);
>>and have the subroutine do the right thing with a[].

How about passing a struct containing a type code and pointers to
both types of arrays?  The "unused" item could be left null and
the type element would tell the function which pointer to use.

Les Mikesell