Monthly Archives: November 2013

Shock horror! I learned something about arrays in C

Technical Consultant at Feabhas Ltd
Glennan is an embedded systems and software engineer with over 20 years experience, mostly in high-integrity systems for the defence and aerospace industry.

He specialises in C++, UML, software modelling, Systems Engineering and process development.
Glennan Carnie

Every so often you pick up a snippet of information that completely changes the way you view things. This week, it’s the use of arrays as function parameters.

At first glance the code horrified me (as I’m sure it will horrify some of you out there!) but as I’ve played with it I can see real merit in the technique.

Arrays, pointers and syntactic sugar

In C there is a close (if somewhat messy!) relationship between arrays and pointers. As far as the […]

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