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Subject: Polymorphic?
From: Itai Zukerman <zukerman@math-hat.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:09:45 -0500
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I'd like to define a C function that takes two arguments of type
"array of <fixed-length type>" and returns an INT4.  The function
would make use of the <, <=, =, >=, > operators on the base type.  Any
examples of or documentation on how to:

1.  Extract information about the underlying type from the arrays, in
    particular the size of the type?

2.  Apply an operator from within C?

-- 
Itai Zukerman  <http://www.math-hat.com/~zukerman/>