I guess the word got a little too confusing... :)
I just meant that even thou the call-by-reference feature is not there in C.
We can use pointers to get similar results.


Regards,
Sandeep Jain



On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Tushar Bindal <[email protected]>wrote:

> we know all these definitions.
>
> but i think the doubt was regarding the word simulate as we consider call
> by reference an internal part of C
> but your statement means that it is a concept of C++, but we just simulate
> it in C using pointers. Am I correctly interpreting it?
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Sandeep Jain <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> We can say call-by-reference is where changes in formal parameters are
>> reflected in actual parameters.
>> call-by-value is where changes in formal parameters are not reflected in
>> actual parameters.
>> However when u have something like
>>
>> int x=10;
>> f(&x);
>>
>> void f(int *p){ *p = 20;}
>> changes in p(formal parameter) won't be reflected in &x (actual parameter)
>> However changes in *p are reflected in x, using this the caller's variable
>> is getting modified by the callee.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sandeep Jain
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Shashank Jain <[email protected]>wrote:
>>
>>> @sandeep, i dint get what do you mean by simulate here, as in an example
>>> wud be gud.
>>>
>>> Shashank Jain
>>> Delhi College of Engineering
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Sandeep Jain <[email protected]>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'd say C language is a truly call-by-value language. C++ supports
>>>> call-by-reference.
>>>> However in C we can "simulate" call-by-reference using pointers and
>>>> address-of operator.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Sandeep Jain
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 11:27 PM, NITIN SHARMA <[email protected]
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> As we say in C that we do call by reference but i thk call by
>>>>> reference is something different like we do through "void pointer" in c
>>>>> ++ but it should be call by address in C is it so?????
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