(j3.2006) Would there be a technical problem if...

[Malcolm Cohen]

>I don't do much C, and haven't done any recently. Isn't a 1-D array
>represented by a pointer to its first element?

 

No.

 

> I.e., you can't tell the
>difference between a scalar and a 1-D array?

 

Depends on context.

 

> Isn't an N-D array a
>pointer to an array of (N-1)-D array pointers?



No.  A brief perusal of Fortran 2003 C interoperability should dispel this illusion.

 

Cheers,

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..............Malcolm Cohen, NAG Oxford/Tokyo.

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