Hi Neil.

08-Jun-04 10:28:02, Neil Heller wrote to Jasen Betts

 NH> JB>the second array gets {-1;0;0;0;} JB>(becaue you initialise it
 NH> to all 0 in main) JB>but it's not immediately obvious wether the
 NH> second element is a JB>number from the first list or marks the
 NH> end...

 NH> True.  In thinking about that problem the only way (that I can
 NH> see) to overcome it would be to dynamically create an array based
 NH> on the size of the input data set OR do a linked list thing.

in C arrays don't have an intrinsic size, there's no way for a function to
determine the size of an array that was passed, (or returned) to it.
this is why you must tell things like qsort how big the array is.

 -=> Bye <=-

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