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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Contiguous Arrays
Message-ID: <9674@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 21 Feb 89 05:40:41 GMT
References: <2508@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2508@ssc-vax.UUCP> dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) writes:
>  I have a difficult time imagining implementing C without contiguous
>  arrays, but is the compiler free to implement non-contiguous arrays
>  if so desired?

Only if the compiler can determine that the program won't notice the
difference.  In practice, no compiler is going to do this.