mixing pointers and arrays
Guy Harris
guy at rlgvax.UUCP
Mon Aug 15 17:37:15 AEST 1983
I agree that even though passing arrays by value would be cleaner, it
wouldn't be desirable (interesting note about Pascal programmers). I
don't know if DMR or any of the other founding fathers of C read this
newsgroup, but what is the general consensus about structure assignment
and passing structures by value? I know it's a major mess to handle
them inside PCC, and some version of PCC generate very nasty code to
handle them (the push/copy of structures isn't done by a loop - the loop
is unrolled at compile time). I rarely use them, and plan not to use
them in the future given that our MIT-based 68000 PCC generates the afore-
mentioned nasty code. (The fix is fairly straightforward, I just haven't
felt motivated to put it in.)
Guy Harris
{seismo,mcnc,we13,brl-bmd,allegra}!rlgvax!guy
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