From: Vinzent Hoefler <JeLlyFish.software@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: Look what I caught! was re:Ada paper critic
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 00:36:22 +0200
Date: 2002-06-19T00:36:22+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d0fb5ea_3@news.bluewin.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3D0E6D8B.C2EF98D3@san.rr.com
Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote:
>Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>> No. Its not a long time ago (was it in c.l.a.?) I read that C arrays
>> are one element more on the right and left side because this becomes
>> handy in using some algorithms that intentionally might get out of
>> bounds.
>
>You're probably thinking of what I said, which was that a pointer into an
>array is allowed to be increased to point off the end of the array by one
>element, but you can't access it.
Ok. Thanks for clarifying that. I was quite confused, because hell a
lot of C code (including the little pieces I already did) wouldn't
have worked at all then.
Vinzent.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-18 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-17 17:35 Look what I caught! was re:Ada paper critic Alderson, Paul A.
2002-06-17 18:31 ` Darren New
2002-06-17 21:40 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-06-17 23:14 ` Darren New
2002-06-18 14:49 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-06-18 22:36 ` Vinzent Hoefler [this message]
2002-06-18 13:28 ` Marin David Condic
2002-06-24 19:17 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-06-18 19:16 ` Kevin Cline
2002-06-18 22:36 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2002-06-19 14:29 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-19 16:59 ` Darren New
2002-06-19 17:48 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-19 17:56 ` Darren New
2002-06-19 17:11 ` Frank J. Lhota
2002-06-19 19:31 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-19 20:02 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-09-24 15:23 ` Matthew Heaney
2002-06-19 19:37 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-19 13:52 ` Ted Dennison
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