Re: Unconstrained Arrays

[belteshazzar <gbelteshazzar@gmail.com>]

On Mar 18, 3:56 am, "Jeffrey R. Carter"
<spam.jrcarter....@spam.acm.org> wrote:
> Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
>
> > I know of no compiler that will not use pass by reference.
>
> Rereading, I realize this may be difficult to understand, especially for those
> who are not native English speakers. So I'll rephrase:
>
> Every compiler that I'm familiar with will use pass by reference.
>
> --
> Jeff Carter
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> was so enamored with your beauty I ran to the basket,
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Unfortuantely this is an optimisation and actually doesn't occur with
optimisation off. (I just ran a test program). I'm told that due to
the significant performance hit of the array initialisers when
optimisation is turned off we can't use that.