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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How to do run-time array declaration?
Message-ID: <13663@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 21 Sep 88 13:53:57 GMT
References: <14502@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <13649@mimsy.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <13649@mimsy.UUCP> I wrote:
>What you can do is simple, if somewhat limited.  The C language assumes
>a `locally flat' address space: any single object has a contiguous address
>space, and a pointer that points somewhere within such an object may be
>used (with pointer arithmetic) to refer to other parts of that object.

Oops: this is probably unclear.  By `single object' I really meant
`single array object', since that is the only case where pointer
arithmetic is legal anyway.
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