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   Dr Engelbert Buxbaum to hwrd69@yahoo.com   
   Re: Mismatched Array Sizes   
   30 Jan 06 18:25:31   
   
   From: engelbert_buxbaum@hotmail.com   
      
   hwrd69@yahoo.com wrote:   
      
   > I am maintaining some legacy code (PASCAL 7) and I have run across a   
   > piece of code I question and am not sure how it is working and not   
   > crashing. There are two arrays that are created (e.g., doubles, w/2000   
   > elements) and a function that can act these arrays (e.g.,   
   > VEC_Add(resultant_array, array1, array2, num_of_elements)). But the   
   > function is passed a num_of_elements that is much greater than the   
   > actual number of elements in the array1 or 2.   
      
   Presumably the "array" is set up as a dynamic structure, where the size   
   is defined at run- not compile-time. If you check the SWAG-library there   
   are several examples how this works.   
      
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