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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Conformant arrays-- how to?
Message-ID: <17241@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 89 22:52:40 GMT
References: <4700036@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <13101@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>In article <4700036@m.cs.uiuc.edu> kenny@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>>... proposal to implement conformant arrays of more than one
>>dimension in C. ...
>>	return_type f (int m,		/* Number of rows */
>>	               int n,		/* Number of columns */
>>	               double x [] [n])	/* x is a m x n array */

In article <13101@paris.ics.uci.edu> schmidt@zola.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt)
writes:
>... GCC ... implements what you are referring to ....

It does.

>This seems pretty straight-forward to understand and implement, but
>might it present problems on some architectures?

No.  Fortran does the same thing (although it needs all but the
*last* dimension, rather than all but the first).
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