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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Are unconstrained arrays passed by references?
Date: 1999/08/11
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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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