Re: where exactly c++,c fail and Ada gets thru'

Keith Thompson wrote:

In fact, it's not possible in C to pass an array directly as a
function parameter.

Actually C99 can pass arrays. The declaration looks something like this:

F (int A_Lenght, double A [A_Lenght])

or

G (double A [static 10])

or even

H (double A [*])

But then: AFAIK: there is only one compiler which prides itself with
actually implementing C99 arrays and one compiler which at least tries and
and has the failures on it's bug list.

Martin
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