Re: technology discussion → does the world need a "new" C ?

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> writes:

On 12.07.2024 15:59, bart wrote:

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So how are the elements of the caller's array accessed?
 
No copies have been supplied to the caller. So access is by ... ?

>
...by an implicit pointer value dereferentiation and a global
access to the pointed to storage area.

A small quibble: I suggest "indirect" would be clearer than "global".

For example, a function can define a local array object and use
its name as an argument in a call to another function.

[...]

As an end point to the discussion (just for some recreational
reading) I suggest "The Development of the C Language" by D.
Ritchie.

Available at <https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/chist.pdf>.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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