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Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Wed Mar 1 03:05:04 AEST 1989


In article <9501 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> yphotons at athena.mit.edu (Sun Warrior) writes:
>I would like to know how to set an array (float) to a certain size...
>... I would first like to be able to type in the size and
>then set the array...

You can't.  With certain (unhelpful) exceptions, the dimensions of C arrays
must be constants.  You can get much the same effect using malloc() and
pointers, although it is more complicated.
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