Thread: Arrays on the PIC?
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Unread 05-12-2004, 19:24
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Re: Arrays on the PIC?
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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod
Just wanted to mention that while single dimension arrays work as expected, there are some oddities in the mcc18 implementation of C with multi-dimensional arrays, e.g., char abc[10,5]. Especially, differences between how a multi-dimensional array behaves in rom vs. in ram space when passed by address to another routine. If you plan on doing this I suggest experimenting first with a test program.
Mark,

I used multidimensional arrays in ROM space with no issues. I address the array by pointer reference and index from there.

I don't have any arrays in RAM space so I can't speak to that... Are you dynamically allocating storage or anything strange like that?
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