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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Teaching new tricks to an old dog (C++ -->Ada)
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On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 01:18:03 GMT, Jim Rogers wrote:

> This is one of the unsafe idioms in C.
> The fact that you can declare a formal parameter as a pointer and then
> use that parameter as an array is unsafe.

It is also unusable with small and packed data types in which case the
array elements may have no valid machine addresses.

The bottom line: array is an interface.

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