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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Are unconstrained arrays passed by references?
Date: 1999/08/10
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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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