Re: Two questions on arrays with size defined by variables

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From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:
> On 09.02.2025 11:25, Keith Thompson wrote:
[...]
>> The first line needs to be `int main(void)`.  The "implicit int"
>> misfeature was removed in C99. [...]
>
> Thanks. (Again answering more/something different than I asked.) :-)
>
> Please note that I structurally illustrated just the posters question
> about where the relevant code excerpt resides (file scope or else).
>
> If I'd knew the audience is picky I'd posted the whole test program;
> but then there's even much more picky comments to expect. ;-)

Yeah, we're picky here.

> I hope to mollify the audience if I point out that my code actually
> looks *like* this
>
>   ...
>   int main (int argc, char * argv[])
>   {
>       ...
>       return 0;
>   }
>
> (And, yes, I know that the "..." is not correct, and argc is unused,
> and I omitted 'const', etc.)

It's clear enough that the "..." is figurative.  As picky as I am,
I wouldn't have commented on it.  "// ..." or "/* ... */" is more
pedantically correct, but whatever.

(Incidentally, Perl has a "..." operator, nicknamed the Yada Yada
operator, intended to mark placeholder code that is not yet
implemented.)

The "return 0;" is unnecessary but harmless in C99 and later.

As for "const", there's nothing in the above snippet that requires it.
You can probably add a const or two to the argv declaration:
    const char *const *argv
but the standard doesn't include "const" in the declaration of argv.
Strictly speaking, adding "const" probably makes the program's behavior
undefined.

[...]

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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                Re: Two questions on arrays with size defined by variables Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-02-10 19:33 +0100
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