A ruler with the logo for the Lua Programming language

  • Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    The reason for the convention is that it used to be just a pointer (adress) to consecutive elements in memory. A[x] is then literally translated to the adress of A + sizeof(x)*x. Meaning that the first element is at A[0].