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0 pointsgjulianm13y ago0 comments

I didn't know that. To answer my previous question, clang doesn't fire a warning when passing pointers of any size to the function foo.

And by the way, nice talk, it's great learning these dark secrets of C.

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rjek13y ago· 2 in thread

The compiler can't know at compile time with a naked pointer like it can with an array. [static 1] is handy to say it must not explicitly be NULL, as if it were optional, however.

gjulianmOP13y ago

Yes, but I expected some kind of "You're passing a pointer as an array of size n. I can't check the size, but you should make sure you've checked it".

ori_b13y ago

I can't imagine that would be anything but noise. 99% of my function calls have pointers passed through, not arrays.

adsr13y ago

But a pointer is not the same thing as an array, a pointer does not carry the size of the allocated space which an array does in the same scope.

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