Date: 30 Apr 2002 17:52:06 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Francis Jordan <francrj@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange gcc warning Message-ID: <xzpheltrxp5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20020430132306.1282.qmail@web20405.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020430132306.1282.qmail@web20405.mail.yahoo.com>
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Francis Jordan <francrj@yahoo.com> writes:
> This may seem like a newbie question, but still -- why
> does the following produce a warning:
>
> void
> foo(const int b[8][8])
> {
> }
Arrays degenerate to pointers when passed as arguments to functions.
You can wrap it in a struct if you want to keep the size information;
otherwise foo() will have to do the necessary pointer arithmetic "by
hand".
DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
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