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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: technology discussion =?utf-8?Q?=E2=86=92?= does the world need
 a "new" C ?
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2024 16:50:06 -0700
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bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
> Arrays can be passed by explicit reference:
>
>   void F(int(*A)[20]) {
>       printf("%zu\n", sizeof(*A)/sizeof((*A)[0]));    // shows 20
>   }
>
> That can be called like this:
>
>   int a[20];
>   F(&a);

On the language level, that's passing a pointer to an array object.
The pointer itself is passed by value.  Passing a pointer to an array
is conceptually no different than passing a pointer to anything else.

C has pass-by-reference in exactly the same way that it has
linked lists.  It has neither as a language feature, but both can
be emulated using pointers.  And you can't really understand how
C handles arrays if you start by asserting that they're "passed
by reference".

But you just have to make it seem more complicated than it really is.

[...]

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */