iteration revisited

Code:

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/*writes a (non-NULL terminated) char array to the file f*/
void write_ch_arr(char *c, int i, FILE *f)
{
    while (i)
    {
        putc(c[i], f);
        --i;
    }
    return;
}

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now the problem with this is that theoretically, since c can span the entire address range, int might not hold all possible addresses of c.

so what type should I make i?
is the only way to do this with pointer arithmetic? Can I do it with an index and iteration?

of course, this ignores the inefficiency of byte vs. block based transfers.

If you want to use an index, I would recommend size_t as your data type.

Yes, size_t is guaranteed to cover the same range as a pointer can do in that architecture, so indexing using a size_t type should be fine. size_t is unsigned, which can be useful sometimes and annoying at other times.

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Mats

thanks :)