On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 15:48:16 +0000, Eric Rossman wrote:

>call by value where the value is an address
>That's the definition of call by reference.
>
Not quite.  Only in the former case the called routine receives
a modifiable local copy of that pointer.  In the latter, no
pointer is visible.

>________________________________
>From: Seymour J Metz
>Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2024 11:44:49 AM
>
>It's tot really call by reference; it's call by value where the value is an 
>address.

-- 
gil

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