Re: static aray question?
Robby <Robby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
is just another way of saying "pass the address of the variable: the
function should take a pointer to it as a parameter".
Meaning that we call with a "&" right? like this:
f1(**u){}
void f1(PASSCODE** u) {}
PASSCODE *ppp;
f1(&ppp);
So passing the variable by its address, within the lingo of C we can
say pass by reference. Above I am passing by reference. Right?
Yes.
I remember in C++ there is an implementation that is called *pass with
reference*
I'm not familiar with this term.
In C++, you could write the code above as
void f1(PASSCODE*& u) {}
PASSCODE* ppp;
f1(ppp);
Note how one level of indirection is essentially hidden by '&' in the
parameter declaration.
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