• palordrolap@fedia.io
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        8 hours ago

        In the C programming language. Or do you mean which C project specifically? Because as Technus surmises in their response, it’s usually a better idea to set up aliases (typedefs or heck, even #defines) so that you’re offloading some of the mental strain keeping track of the layers, and that’s likely to be what happens in production code.

        But the underlying data type is still T***.

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      21 hours ago

      Ah right, so that would be a 3D array.

      • T* is a single row of T
      • T** is a list of rows
      • T*** is a list of “layers” in the third dimension

      This would be incredibly hazardous to pass around as a bare pointer with no context, though. I’d expect to see this in a struct that, at minimum, also includes fields for the size of each dimension.