Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Pointers to Constants
Message-ID: <1990Jan1.051721.29388@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <21337@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 90 05:17:21 GMT

In article <21337@unix.cis.pitt.edu> rothen@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Seth B Rothenberg) writes:
>The only possible thing I thought of is
>        CALL FUNCT1( X + 5, Y + 2) ---> {t[0]=x+5; t[1]=y+2; funct1(t, t+1) }
>                                where t is declared   int t[10];
>But this is ugly...

This really is about what you have to do.  (Don't forget to suppress the
use of the temporary when the thing being passed is addressable.)  Fortran
does this for you invisibly; C doesn't.
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