[top-posting fixed]
On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:25:00 +0100, Aitor Czr wrote:
> On 12/11/2015 10:04 AM, Irrwahn <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Ceterum censeo: There is no pass by reference in C,
>> has never been, and will presumably never be. Heck,
>> the C standard doesn't mention the concept at all,
>> not even in a non-normative foot note!
[...]
> CASE 1 (C Language):
>
> # include <stdio.h>
>
> void func(int*);
>
> int main(void)
> {
> int i=1;
> func(&i);
> printf( "%d", i);
> return 0;
> }
>
> void func(int *x)
> {
> *x = 2;
> }
[...]
> CASE 1: The argument is not a reference, it's an address.
Indeed. Alternatively you could call it a pointer value (sic!).
[...]
> I have several books about C/C++ language (by G. Leblanc, Fco. Charte, Javier
> Ceballos, etc...)
[pedantic mode=full] There is no C/C++ language. Those
are two distinct languages, looking uncannily similar
in places. Unfortunately. [pedantic/]
> H. Schildt is the only one using this terminology in C.
Which should tell us /something/, shouldn't it? ;^)
Irrwahn
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