Re: Interfacing to C

["Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

On 24 déc, 13:34, Niklas Holsti <niklas.hol...@tidorum.invalid> wrote:
> RasikaSriniva...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I am building an interface to a C library. This library uses structs
> > like the following:
>
> > typedef struct {
> >     x : int ;
> >     y : int }  MyStruct ....
>
> > While passing variables of this type to functions, the convention in C
> > is to pass by value (best of my knowledge).
>
> Correct, as I understand the C parameter-passing rules.
Shame on me, you are both right. I was confused between standard
practice and language standard.

Language which allow C interface, like some Pascal dialects, do it
using implicit by reference structs, while with C, by reference
structs is done explicitly using a point type.