[Error] expected expression before '{' token

[Sappie]

Hi, I was learning 'Selection Sorting' in C and while writing my program I constantly get the error-

[Error] expected expression before '{' token
Here's my program-

#include<stdio.h>
void main(int A[10])
{
    int i,j;
    A[10]={2,4,1,9,0,6,5,7,3,8};
    for(i=0;i<9;++i)
    {
        int Min=i;
        for(j=i+1;j<10;++j)
        {
            if(A[j]<Min)
            {
                Min=j;
            }
            int temp=A[i];
            A[i]=A[Min];
            A[Min]=temp;
        }
    }
    for(i=0;i<10;++i)
    {
        printf("%d\n",A[i]);
    }
}

If I try to initialize A[10] as a parameter in the function, it gives this error-

[Error] expected ';', ',' or ')' before '=' token

What's the issue?

[Reverend Jim]

What are you trying to do? If you want to assign a value to a[10] you must specify only a single value. If you want to assign multiple values to an array you must do it when the array is declared as

int a[] = {2,4,1,9,0,6,5,7,3,8};

Also main would take only command line parameters like

main(int argc, char **argv)

You don't specify an array size in the parameter list.

[JamesCherrill]

You don't specify an array size in the parameter list.

I thought that was pefectly valid in C ... am I wrong?

[Reverend Jim]

I'm an old style c programmer. I thought arrays were passed by reference, in which case you pass just the address of the start of the array.

[JamesCherrill]

Yes. You can pass the address or the array, but both actually pass the address. Specifying the array size seems to have no real effect other than to document a pre-condition, but maybe there are some subtle differences that are beyond me.