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Re: Naive pointer question ? [message #29011 is a reply to message #28944]

Thu, 24 January 2002 02:45

the_cacc
Messages: 104
Registered: October 2001

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Yo,

Thanks for the input - I've been looking through my IDL library
looking for routines to adapt for pointers but can't see any very
obvious candidates (don't need data structures beyond trivial in
complexity).
However, one useful app for me is Paul's suggestion for 'a data array
where each "element" is another array, and each one is a different
size'. Would I need to store the length of each element in a separate
array ? And then store both arrays in a structure ?

I didn't understand what Bhautik said, that '[use of pointers] runs
against the method of passing data via common blocks (which are EVIL!
EVIL! EVIL!) -
data is instead passed down a heirachy of functions'. Since much of my
code is cursed with COMMON blocks (eg. when using CURVEFIT, AMOEBA,
etc), any way to avoid this would be preferable. Well, not *any* ;)

Ciao.

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		Naive pointer question ? By: the_cacc on Tue, 22 January 2002 13:59
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: Craig Markwardt on Sat, 26 January 2002 13:16
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: btupper on Sun, 27 January 2002 14:17
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: Craig Markwardt on Sat, 26 January 2002 13:18
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: the_cacc on Tue, 29 January 2002 02:33
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: James Kuyper on Fri, 25 January 2002 08:43
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: btupper on Fri, 25 January 2002 05:58
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 24 January 2002 15:17
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: Bhautik Joshi on Thu, 24 January 2002 14:17
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 24 January 2002 09:52
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: David Burridge on Thu, 24 January 2002 07:30
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: Paul van Delst on Thu, 24 January 2002 06:53
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: the_cacc on Thu, 24 January 2002 02:45
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: the_cacc on Wed, 30 January 2002 05:02
		Re: Naive pointer question ? By: Craig Markwardt on Tue, 29 January 2002 06:28
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