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Subject: Re: variable sized arrays and gcc
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On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Bill Paul wrote:

> int some_random_function(str)
> 	char			*str;
> {
> 	char			buf[strlen(str) + 10];

Heck, you can even do

int some_func (int a, int b, int c, char ar[a][b][c])
{
	/* Which gives me a full-blown multidimensional array
	 * as ar (ie. char[a][b][c], not char ***) */
}

FWIW, I rather like these extensions.


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