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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Passing 2-D Arrays of unknown size ?
Message-ID: <21415@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 22 Dec 89 21:35:20 GMT
References: <1387@engage.enet.dec.com>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <1387@engage.enet.dec.com> wallace@oldtmr.dec.com (Ray Wallace)
writes:
>[the] solution_func3() is what I would use with a slight modification to
>illiminate [sic] the calculation drawback you mention...
>
>solution_func3(array,rows,cols)
>char *array;
>int rows, cols;

Note that this requires the caller---which has something like a

	char arr[ROWS][COLS];

---to call func3() as

	func3(&arr[0][0], ROWS, COLS);

and not as

	func3(arr, ROWS, COLS);

since the latter has the wrong type (char (*)[COLS]).  Remember, C
does not have values, C has *typed* values.
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