Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ubvax!ames!lamaster
From: lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Fortran versus C for numerical anal
Message-ID: <15145@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 19 Sep 88 18:59:50 GMT
References: <50500075@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <3708@lanl.gov> <1530@ficc.uu.net>
Reply-To: lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Hugh LaMaster)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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In article <1530@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>char (*twodarray)[10];
:
>	twodarray = malloc(10*sizeof(*twodarray));
:
>	twodarray[9][5] = 'c';
:
>Satisfied?

I think the point of dynamically sized arrays has been lost here.  The
capability which C does not have is that of writing a subroutine which
does not contain any information on what the size of the array being
passed in is at compile time, while using the same syntax as statically
sized arrays.  

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