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I was mainly trying to show a way of dealing with extremely complex data types on compilers that choke on them. The array in question was proposed by the author of the message I was replying to. As for accessing an individual int from within this kind of mess, I've never needed to (and find it hard to believe that anybody else would, either.) I've played around with a program or two that may have had this complicated a data type, but I tend to think in terms of the intermediate types. As an example, I might have: typedef struct {int real, imaginary;} complex; typedef complex vector[4]; typedef vector matrix[4]; matrix foo[10]; From within the function that declares foo, I would NEVER access the ints that base this mess. I'd hate to try to figure out how to access the real component of the second complex number in the third vector of the fourth matrix in foo. I just don't think that way. Like I said, if you have a datatype this messy and you need to access the individual ints at every point in your program, then your program needs some serious design work.