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- From: davidn@csource.oz.au (david nugent)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: What do you say.
- Message-ID: <clLMrAYIBh107h@csource.oz.au>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 12:31:08 +1100
- References: <9212072102.AA08844@spirit.aud.alcatel.com> <1992Dec8.014940.5497@fs7.ece.cmu.edu>
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- In <1992Dec8.014940.5497@fs7.ece.cmu.edu> woyansky@flamingo.ece.cmu.edu (George J. Woyansky) writes:
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- >We had a guy where I used to work that couldn't understand how arrays of
- >dimension >= 2 were stored in memory. Not just row/column major confusion,
- >but big conceptual problems about _where_ the next row/column got stored...
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- Hmm - isn't that why you have to mount some memory banks horizontally
- and others vertically? As for multi-dimentional arrays; well, I guess
- you have to do a few more hardware mods to accommodate.
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- david
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- PS: For the humour impaired, here's the :-)
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