From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Are unconstrained arrays passed by references?
Date: 1999/08/10
Date: 1999-08-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7oq77c$1et$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37B071C8.FF759493@averstar.com
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).
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1999-08-10 0:00 Are unconstrained arrays passed by references? bourguet
1999-08-10 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-10 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-08-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-08-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-08-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-08-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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