Re: HELP ! need to insert value in array !!

[abowers@gate.net (Al Bowers)]

On Sun, 29 Jun 1997 15:05:28 GMT, miker3@ix.netcom.com (Mike
Rubenstein) wrote:
Referring to C language , I agree with your arguments. However,
the C code you use to reinforce your argument is faulty.

>It's quite easy to detect the difference.  For example,
>
>	#include <stdio.h>
>
>	int main(void)
>	{
>	  int a[2];
>	  unsigned long d = (char*) a[1] - (char*) a[0];
should be:
               unsigned long d = (char *)&a[1] - (char *)&a[0];
or 
               unsigned long d = (char *)(a+1) - (char *)a;
>	  printf ("%lu %lu\n", d, sizeof(int));
               printf("%lu %lu\n",d,(unsigned long)sizeof(int));
>	  return 0;
>	}
>
>This must print the same number twice.
>
>Note also that without this rule there would be no guarantee that code
>like
>
>	#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h> /* for memcpy() */
>
>	int a[5] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };;
                                                  ^^
>	int *b = malloc(5 * sizeof *b);
>	if (b != NULL)
>	  memcpy(b, a, sizeof a);
>
>would work.  It would be extremely difficult for an implementation to
>fake this with non-contiguous arrays since the ultimate type of the
>allocated memory may not be known at the time the malloc() is done.
>
>From ISO 6.1.2.5:
>
>	An array type describes a contiguously allocated nonempty set 
>	of objects ...

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