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A C program called musixflx is used as the second pass of a
three-pass TeX-based system called musixtex.  The program was
the first C program written by a Fortran programmer.  It has
definitions as follows:

  # define MAX_BARS    2048  /* max number of bars */

  int zbar[MAX_BARS], lr_repeat[MAX_BARS], raggedline[MAX_BARS],
      l_repeat[MAX_BARS], barno[MAX_BARS], ...

  double hardbarlength[MAX_BARS], softbarlength[MAX_BARS],
         width_leftrightrepeat[MAX_BARS], width_leftrepeat[MAX_BARS],
         ...

Typically the number of bars in a piece is much smaller than MAX_BARS.

Would it be best to

 + leave the code alone and let the virtual-memory functions of the
   operating system manage the memory

 + use "extensible" arrays (i.e., use realloc to copy small arrays to
   larger ones when necessary)

And would there be any benefit to using a single array of structures
instead of many parallel arrays?

Bob T.

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