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From: Vinzent 'Gadget' Hoefler <nntp-2004-05@t-domaingrabbing.de>
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Subject: Re: "out" parameters
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 00:25:44 +0200
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Keith Thompson wrote:

>Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> writes:
>[...]
>> Besides by-copy and by-reference, there is also the possibility of
>> passing parameters in processor registers.
>
>Isn't that just a special case of by-copy?

Well, it could as well be a special case of by-reference. ;)


Vinzent.