From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Are unconstrained arrays passed by references?
Date: 1999/08/11
Date: 1999-08-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7osb5v$h9u$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccr9laijl8.fsf@world.std.com
In article <wccr9laijl8.fsf@world.std.com>,
Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
> Well, maybe, but the C compilers I know of on word-addressable
machines
> don't pack. It's not clear how one would *ask* for packing in
C,
> and it's not clear that it should be turned on by default (if
at
> all).
Surely the C compiler for the Cray-2 does pack strings, and
uses specialized pointers for characters? At least that was
my impression, and the C language definition is clearly
carefully designed to permit this implementation approach.
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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 ` Tucker Taft
1999-08-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-08-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-08-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-08-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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