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echo: c_plusplus
to: JOSHUA BOEHME
from: CAMERON CLARK
date: 1997-05-01 23:12:00
subject: Re: Pointer Arrays

JB> int foobar[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5};
JB> int size = sizeof(foobar) / sizeof(int);
JB> 
JB>  with size coming to 5, but it didn't work on passed arrays.
    The called function receives a pointer to the first element in
    a contiguous list of some type. A function will probably just
    give you the size of a pointer or 0 meaning I don't know what
    the size is.
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