Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
In C it is pass by value, as the pointer
is explicit and do whatever you want with the pointer value.
You clearly are not a C programmer.
Most of my C data abstractions use dual circular linked lists of
pointers to structures of pointers. *All* of that is only ever passed
(at least in my programming) as references. My code almost never passes
data by value.
We do not consider passing a pointer as *by value* because its an
address; by definition, that is pass-by-reference. We are not passing
the *value* of the data, we are passing the memory location (the
reference) to the data. Pass by *value* on the other hand actually
places the *value* of the data item on the call stack as a parameter.
Much of this conversation has more to do with semantics.
kind regards,
m harris
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