Re: static aray question?

Robby <Robby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think I am getting confused between
passing by reference and passing a pointer??????

C doesn't have syntax for passing by reference, the way C++ does. In C,
"pass a variable by reference" is just another way of saying "pass the
address of the variable: the function should take a pointer to it as a
parameter".
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Igor Tandetnik

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