Multidimensional Static Array Initialization Follow-up
Chris Torek
chris at mimsy.UUCP
Tue Aug 23 23:17:39 AEST 1988
[questions and answers about when array sizes can be elided deleted]
In article <8584 at ihlpb.ATT.COM> tainter at ihlpb.ATT.COM (Tainter) writes:
>It isn't just an issue of the initializer. Consider code referencing the
>above entity foo. As long as only one dimension is unknown C can generate
>code to manipulate the structure without requiring patching at link time.
The question was about initialised arrays---specifically, about the
cases where the compiler is able to deduce the dimensions. Hence
*none* of the dimensions are unknown; they are merely left up to the
compiler to count.
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