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From: "Eric G. Miller" <egm2@jps-nospam.net>
Subject: Re: Out parameters in a function
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In <3CBCFCC8.6000206@worldnet.att.net>, Jim Rogers wrote:

> Well, almost. C does not have a boolean type. C (since its first

Umm, mostly true. C99 has stdbool.h, but it's still not really a
builtin type of the language (int macros ...).

And curiously, C can return structs containing arrays, but can't
return arrays (as arrays are not "lvalues"). Boggle...