Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls35!gwaters
From: gwaters@bwdls35.bnr.ca (Glenn Waters)
Subject: How to declare a reference to ptr var
Message-ID: <1990Oct1.163755.20207@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
Keywords: reference, pointer
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Reply-To: gwaters@bwdls35.bnr.ca (Glenn Waters)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 90 16:37:55 GMT

I have a variable that is declared:
	char *x;
I want to call a function saying:
	f(x);
How do I declare the function, such that x comes in as a reference var.
I tried a few different ways, to no avail...
	f( char * &xr )...
	f( char & *xr ) <-- I thought this should really work.


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