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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Holes in 2-D array?
Message-ID: <9614@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 Feb 89 16:41:12 GMT
References: <12570007@hpclwjm.HP.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <12570007@hpclwjm.HP.COM> walter@hpclwjm.HP.COM (Walter Murray) writes:
>It would seem that a lot of bad things could happen if such holes
>could exist, but I can't prove that they can't from the dpANS.

If you consider what the sizeof the whole array is required to be,
and compare that to the sizeof an element, it should be clear that
there is no room for any such "holes".  A proof should be able to
be worked up from that observation.