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Subject: Re: "array"
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2025 12:43:59 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2 Apr 2025 11:46:17 GMT
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wibbled:
>ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:
>>C only defines "array type", not array, but it uses ISO/IEC 2382:2015
>>as a normative reference, and ISO/IEC 2382:2015 says:
>
>  In practice, C programmers probably most often use 
>
>|An array is a collection of values, all of the same type,
>|stored contiguously in memory.
>"C data types" (2025) - Wikipedia-Seite
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>  , but I have not yet found a way to derive this from the ISO C spec!
>

You can't define mixed type arrays and the members have to be contiguous in 
memory or half the standard library would fail.