Re: Are unconstrained arrays passed by references?

[kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <7oq77c$1et$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> In article <37B071C8.FF759493@averstar.com>,
>   Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com> wrote:
>> If the subprogram has convention "C" then you can be sure that
>> arrays are passed by reference.
> 
> I disagree, this is implementation advice only, not a
> requirement of the standard. For example, it would be perfectly
> valid to pass a 32 bit packed array as an int (it would not
> meet the implementation advice, but it would be valid).

Doesn't this depend on the C compiler to which you are
interfacing ?  I know VAX C can accept an array of 9
bytes passed by value (it spreads the bytes across
the registers when running on Alpha).  I presume DEC
C can do the same thing for the sake of compatibility.

The only things I know about C compilers are the ugly things.

Larry Kilgallen