Re: where exactly c++,c fail and Ada gets thru'

[Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>]

Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> Keith Thompson wrote:
>> In fact, it's not possible in C to pass an array directly as a
>> function parameter.
>
> Actually C99 can pass arrays. The declaration looks something like this:
>
> F (int A_Lenght, double A [A_Lenght])
>
> or
>
> G (double A [static 10])
>
> or even
>
> H (double A [*])
>
> But then: AFAIK: there is only one compiler which prides itself with
> actually implementing C99 arrays and one compiler which at least tries and
> and has the failures on it's bug list.

I'm fairly sure that still passes a pointer, not the actual array.
For example, the expression "sizeof(A)" inside the function will yield
the size of a pointer, not the size of the array.

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