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Arrays and Functions

When an array is passed as a parameter to a function
  • the address of the start of the array is actually passed

    → an exception to the 'call-by-value' parameter passing in C!

Example: 

int total, vec[20];
…
total = sum(vec);

Within the function …

  • the types of elements in the array are known
  • the size of the array is unknown