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Re: Pass by value and performance [message #46712 is a reply to message #46711] Wed, 14 December 2005 07:09 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Kenneth P. Bowman is currently offline  Kenneth P. Bowman
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In article <1134545885.801135.229150@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"Peter Albert" <peter.albert@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Ken,
>
> if you used pointers in your structures and routines and only passed
> the pointers, your code could stay nice and you would save a lot of
> memory.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter

True, and I considered that possibility. It would work fine for passing
the arrays amongst my own routines, but I have to dereference the
pointer to pass the array itself into system routines. Dereferencing a
pointer is an expression, is it not?, and expressions are passed by
value.

Ken

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