call by reference

[jamihuq]

Hello all,
I have a question. Does the concept of call by reference exist in C
like it does in C++? And if so, can someone give me an example.

Thanks
Jami

[roberts.noah]

jamihuq wrote:

Hello all,
I have a question. Does the concept of call by reference exist in C
like it does in C++? And if so, can someone give me an example.

You use pointers. Caller has to know and provide the appropriate data.

[Bilgehan.Balban]

jamihuq wrote:

Hello all,
I have a question. Does the concept of call by reference exist in C
like it does in C++? And if so, can someone give me an example.

Thanks
Jami

Hi,

It works the same way, i.e. you pass an `int' by value, but there are
no references in C. So you must pass a pointer to an int, in order to
have call by reference.

Bahadir

[Alf P. Steinbach]

* jamihuq:

I have a question. Does the concept of call by reference exist in C
like it does in C++? And if so, can someone give me an example.

The concept exists independent of language.

The language support for the concept differs depending on the language.

Since C is mostly a subset of C++, the support present in C (namely,
pointers) is also present in C++, and in addition C++ has a dedicated
reference type.

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