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Re: C array descriptor

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Subject Re: C array descriptor
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From Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org>
Organization nocrew
Date 2014-06-26 08:12 +0200
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Rod Pemberton writes:
> C doesn't have arrays either.  C has pointers.  C has a subscript
> operator [] which uses a pointer and scaled index.  What C has is
> the ability to declare the space for an array.  That's it.  That's
> the *only* thing in C that C has which involves an array.

There's also sizeof.

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C array descriptor Roger Levy <roger.levy@gmail.com> - 2014-06-24 19:45 -0700
  Re: C array descriptor Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-06-25 03:23 -0500
    Re: C array descriptor Segfaults R Us <seg4u@segue.org> - 2014-06-25 08:45 +0000
    Re: C array descriptor Roger Levy <roger.levy@gmail.com> - 2014-06-25 07:03 -0700
    Re: C array descriptor "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-25 18:13 -0400
      Re: C array descriptor Roger Levy <roger.levy@gmail.com> - 2014-06-25 17:03 -0700
      Re: C array descriptor Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2014-06-26 08:12 +0200
        Re: C array descriptor "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-26 18:07 -0400
          Re: C array descriptor Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org> - 2014-06-27 07:50 +0200
      Re: C array descriptor Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-06-26 04:10 -0500
        Re: C array descriptor "Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email@xnothavet.cqm> - 2014-06-26 18:07 -0400
          Re: C array descriptor bruce.mcfarling@gmail.com - 2014-06-26 22:14 -0700
          Re: C array descriptor Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-06-27 03:39 -0500
            Re: C array descriptor Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-06-27 03:32 -0700
              Re: C array descriptor Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2014-06-27 06:00 -0500
                Re: C array descriptor Roger Levy <roger.levy@gmail.com> - 2014-06-27 07:34 -0700
                Re: C array descriptor bruce.mcfarling@gmail.com - 2014-06-27 09:42 -0700
                Re: C array descriptor Roger Levy <roger.levy@gmail.com> - 2014-06-27 09:51 -0700
                Re: C array descriptor bruce.mcfarling@gmail.com - 2014-06-27 15:32 -0700
        Re: C array descriptor Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2014-06-27 03:40 +0200

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