Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C
Message-ID: <1989Mar8.174345.1336@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1256@dukeac.UUCP> <9743@smoke.BRL.MIL> <9501@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1989Feb28.170504.17123@utzoo.uucp> <27@dbase.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 17:43:45 GMT

In article <27@dbase.UUCP> awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas) writes:
>> ... the dimensions of C arrays
>> must be constants.  You can get much the same effect using malloc() and
>> pointers, although it is more complicated.
>
>It's not very complicated at all...
>...
>What's the big deal?

I didn't say "very complicated", I said "more complicated".  Understanding
pointers and malloc() is a significant hurdle for a beginner.
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