not possible

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:17 PM, tech coder <[email protected]>wrote:

> +1 to don
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Don <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Not really. Usually you would need a second parameter indicating the
>> size of the input. In theory it might be possible to put a marker
>> value at the end of the array.
>>
>> Most implementations of malloc store the size of the memory block in
>> the word immediately before the returned address. This is used when
>> you free the memory. So some programmers use things like:
>>
>> int *data = (int *)malloc(n*sizeof(int));
>>
>> And then later:
>> int size = *(data-4)/sizeof(int);
>>
>> This would not work if data was declared as an array rather than as a
>> malloced pointer. It is also completely implementation dependent, so I
>> would not recommend it for any code which someone may someday have to
>> maintain.
>>
>> Don
>>
>> On Sep 15, 10:59 am, rahul vatsa <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > if i pass an int array to a function, is it possible to find out the no
>> of
>> > elements in the called function ?
>>
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