Yes it’s inherited from C. The function: void foo ( char a[100] ); Will have the parameter adjusted to be a pointer, and so becomes: void foo ( char * a ); If you want that the array type is preserved, you should pass in a reference to the array: void foo ( char (&a)[100] … Read more
PDF versions of the standard As of 1st September 2014 March 2022, the best locations by price for the official C and C++ standards documents in PDF seem to be: C++20 – ISO/IEC 14882:2020: 212 CAD (about $165 US) from csagroup.org C++17 – ISO/IEC 14882:2017: $90 NZD (about $65 US) from Standards New Zealand C++14 … Read more
[*] (Background: I have some experience implementing C and C++ compilers.) Variable-length arrays in C99 were basically a misstep. In order to support VLAs, C99 had to make the following concessions to common sense: sizeof x is no longer always a compile-time constant; the compiler must sometimes generate code to evaluate a sizeof-expression at runtime. … Read more
The rules (which did not change in C++11): Reserved in any scope, including for use as implementation macros: identifiers beginning with an underscore followed immediately by an uppercase letter identifiers containing adjacent underscores (or “double underscore”) Reserved in the global namespace: identifiers beginning with an underscore Also, everything in the std namespace is reserved. (You … Read more