Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!haven!cvl!mimsy!chris 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 Lines: 11 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. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris