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Subject: Re: "array"
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:53:15 +0200
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On 2 Apr 2025 11:01:01 GMT, (Stefan Ram) wrote:

>  Below, an array is allocated dynamically.
>
>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <stdlib.h>
>
>int main( void )
>{ char *array_pointer =3D malloc( 10 * sizeof *array_pointer );
>  if( !array_pointer )return EXIT_FAILURE;
>  *array_pointer =3D 'a';
>  free( array_pointer ); }
>
>  But is it really an array according to the C spec?
>
>  C only defines "array type", not array, but it uses ISO/IEC 2382:2015
>  as a normative reference, and ISO/IEC 2382:2015 says:

Im not one expert...

i consider one array one contiguos succession of elements, where
elements have the sama type

and array has no type

or has the type "array of lements type T"