Problems allocating 300k data structure using Turbo C

[Chris Torek]

In article <1991Mar15.230133.16073 at lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> kemps at prism.CS.ORST.EDU
(Scott Micheal Kemp) writes:
>     POINTS huge (*points)[];

Ignoring the `huge' modifier, this declares `points' as a

	pointer to array ? of POINTS

where `?' means `I have no idea how big this array is'.  Such a type
is nearly useless; I claim it should not exist at all, but for the fact
that it has to, to give meaning to

	extern char foo[];
	... &foo

There is nothing you can do with a `pointer to array ? of T' that you
cannot do with just a `pointer to T', so you might as well ignore the
existence of this type.

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