Passing static arrays to C

[Era Scarecrow]

On Wednesday, 24 October 2012 at 09:16:30 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> C accepts static arrays as pointers, so T[n] in D would be C 
> prototyped as T*.
>
> Pass a pointer to the first element.

  In GCC (or any c compiler) isn't it possible in optimizing to 
copy the static array to the stack (say 8 bytes or less as a 
guess)? Course this assumes the static size is set as part of the 
function signature too...

  It makes sense for it to work both ways (in their own way); But 
then more bugs can lie in wait as well.