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<h4 class="subsection">4.7.4 Passing Conformant Array Parameters</h4>

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<p>Conformant arrays are a feature of Modula-2, and perhaps other
languages, in which the size of an array parameter is not known to the
called function until run-time.  Such parameters have two stabs: a
&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">x</span></samp>&rsquo; for the array itself, and a &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">C</span></samp>&rsquo;, which represents the size
of the array.  The value of the &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">x</span></samp>&rsquo; stab is the offset in the
argument list where the address of the array is stored (it this right? 
it is a guess); the value of the &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">C</span></samp>&rsquo; stab is the offset in the
argument list where the size of the array (in elements? in bytes?) is
stored.

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