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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: Pyramid's "non-standard" C compiler
Keywords: cc C
Message-ID: <79432@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 1 Aug 89 16:28:11 GMT
References: <235@massey.ac.nz>
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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In article <235@massey.ac.nz> K.Spagnolo@massey.ac.nz (Ken Spagnolo) writes:
>I refer to the fact that in Pyramid C, given 'struct x x;', a call to
>function y() like 'y(x);' will pass to y() the entire structure x, rather
>that just a pointer to x....

Nope. Go to the back of the class. If you want to pass a pointer to a struct,
you have to take its address with the '&' operator. That *is* standard C. (See
K&R section 6.2, and the C Reference Manual section 7.1.) "Old" K&R implemen-
tations will flag an error if you pass the structure directly; these days that
means my PDP-11, my Cromemco Z80, and not much else. All modern C compilers
copy and pass the structure.

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