pointers, functions, and uniform call syntax

[monarch_dodra]

On Friday, 7 September 2012 at 00:51:42 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
>  So it seems. The way I read it says it dereferences it first. 
> Regardless that you are forcibly referencing a pointer which is 
> low-level trickery; which I'm sure is undefined behavior.

*Technically*, I think it is only undefined behavior once you 
*read* the dereferenced value... and passing by reference doesn't 
do that.