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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:20:54 +0300
From: Dim Zegebart <zager AT post DOT comstar DOT ru>
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To: Jason Alexander <jalex AT ea DOT oac DOT uci DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Dynamically declaring 2-d arrays
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Jason Alexander wrote:
> 
>   Can someone explain to me how to dynamically declare a 2-d array?
>   I know the following code works for dynamically declaring a 1-d array
> of integers, but I don't see how to extend it to the 2-d case.
> 
> int main(void) {
>  int i;
>  int *array;
> 
>  printf("Array dimension: ");
>  scanf("%d", &i);
>  array = (int *) malloc(i*sizeof(int))
> }
GCC has special feature which allows to declare arrays dynamically :
int foo(ibt x,int y)
{ int arr[x][y];
  ...
}
That's all.
Note, this is a specific gcc feature, so it's not portable to other
compilers.

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