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From: belteshazzar <gbelteshazzar@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Unconstrained Arrays
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On Mar 18, 3:56=A0am, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org> wrote:
> Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
>
> > I know of no compiler that will not use pass by reference.
>
> Rereading, I realize this may be difficult to understand, especially for =
those
> who are not native English speakers. So I'll rephrase:
>
> Every compiler that I'm familiar with will use pass by reference.
>
> --
> Jeff Carter
> "My dear Mrs. Hemoglobin, when I first saw you, I
> was so enamored with your beauty I ran to the basket,
> jumped in, went down to the city, and bought myself a
> wedding outfit."
> Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
> 111

Unfortuantely this is an optimisation and actually doesn't occur with
optimisation off. (I just ran a test program). I'm told that due to
the significant performance hit of the array initialisers when
optimisation is turned off we can't use that.