Re: "PORTING C" > Viewing an array in wathc window fails!
Igor Tandetnik wrote:
You could mention array dimensions in the function definition:
int addNumbers(int fiveNumbers[5]) { ... }
This also tells anyone reading the code that the function expects an array
of exactly 5 elements.
Well, anyone but not anything, in particular not the compiler, which will
neither check nor even warn you if you supply more or less. IOW, this is
also the same as
int addNumbers(int* fiveNumbers);
Barring that, you can tell the debugger how many
elements you want to watch by entering "fiveNumbers,5" (without quotes) in
the Watch window.
Another alternative, tell it to the function:
int addNumbers(int const* numbers, size_t size);
or maybe even:
template<size_t len>
int addNumbers(int numbers[len]);
Of course you can also go STL style and pass in two iterators to the
sequence to add up. Hmmm, isn't there such an algorithm already in the C++
standard lib?
Uli
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