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		Spivak on April 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C But I don't know what you want to happen in this case? If you actually call f(2,0) then the program makes no sense. How can you have an expected value for a function call that violates its preconditions?

userbinator on April 14, 2020 [–]

Based on the memory layout of arrays, which AFAIK is defined rather strictly by the standard, a[0][2] will be the same as a[1][0].

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