several questions

[Derek Parnell]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:09:44 +0100, torhu wrote:

> Derek Parnell wrote:
>   > This is in contrast with structs, static (fixed-length) arrays, and 
> basic
>> data types. In these cases, the function does get a copy of the parameter's
>> data.
> 
> No, static arrays are 'reference' types.  Meaning they are passed as 
> just the address of the first element.  You have to wrap them in a 
> struct to get copy semantics for them.

Thanks for the correction. I was sure that at one stage static arrays were
passed by value. This will simplify some of my code now.

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