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From: "David Botton" <David@Botton.com>
Subject: Re: Ada Core Technologies announces GNATCOM
Date: 2000/04/12
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I may be mistaken, but I believe many pre (and I mean pre) ANSI C compilers
did this.

David Botton

Hyman Rosen wrote in message ...
>"David Botton" <David@Botton.com> writes:
>> I am not sure I understand how I am confused, although I may very
>> well be. In the Turbo C version I used (some many years ago) if
>> struct q was large enough doing m.a++ in the function as you do
>> below would in fact change the m passed in, ie. a pass by reference.
>
>But this is completely erroneous for C. If you are correctly describing
>the behavior of the compiler then the compiler was broken.