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		flingo on July 22, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Conflating pointers with arrays: C's biggest mista... Is it better to pass the length of the array, or a pointer to the last valid address in the array? (or one past that) There's probably an advantage in the two types being the same. Thought of this as I was reading the article.

jibal on July 23, 2018 [–]

The length is better, since that's almost always what you want.

> There's probably an advantage in the two types being the same.

Not really.

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