Hi! If you have a big array of something (whateverType MyArray[100000]) then we all know that in order to get the n:th element we just write ex = MyArray[n]; okej, so far so good. My question is: hpw is thsi implemented in most compilers? Is it done with some sort of pointer arithmetics or is it really a constant operation to get an element from an array?? just curious --Spencer

compiler does something like this

ex = *(MyArray + n*sizeof(whateverType));

maybe ?

gets the starting address of the array
calculates the byte offset and adds it on
then dereferences it to get what is there


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