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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Dynamic multidimensional arrays
Message-ID: <8096@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 16 Jun 88 07:43:01 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <3342@ut-emx.UUCP> chpf127@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Eaton) writes:
>   What if I decide I would like to have negative as well as positive
>   (or zero) indices for arrays?
>   Standard Fortran allows this.  Doesn't C?

Sure it does, so long as there is a valid object at the referenced
location.  In fact I'm just about to change some application code's
dynamic array allocation so that [-1] will be a valid offset.