Re: Variable Length Array Implementation in C

ralph@inputplus.demon.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy)
30 Nov 2000 12:09:01 -0500

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From: ralph@inputplus.demon.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 30 Nov 2000 12:09:01 -0500
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Posted-Date: 30 Nov 2000 12:09:01 EST

Hi,


> Can someone provide references to papers/WWW links that discuss
> implementation of variable length arrays in C?
>
> > [There were several articles on this in the JCLT. As I recall,
> > there aren't any issues in VLA implementation that didn't come up
> > 40 years ago in Algol 60, although there was a lot of discussion
> > about how to fit them into the language. -John]


A good one, that did appear in the _Journal of C Language Translation_,
is by Dennis Ritchie. It's available from his Bell Labs page.


        http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/


Look for `Variable-size Arrays in C'.




Ralph Corderoy.

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