Re: Variable length arrays

On Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:02:22 +0100, jacob navia wrote:
If you replace
int tab[size];

with

int tab[size*i+1];

gcc will ALSO produce different arrays for each iteration.

If you print a pointer to the end of the array, you'll find it has the
same address every time. It happens to be a system with a stack that grows
downwards, so it's not practical to give the start of the array a fixed
location, but there's no reason why the end should not be given one.
.

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