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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: function prototype mystery?
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.191106.11154@alphalpha.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 19:11:06 GMT
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In article <1991Apr11.164655.17092@milton.u.washington.edu> etb@milton.u.washington.edu (Eric Bushnell) writes:
>What do the &'s do to the first and third arguments?
Pass by reference.  You hand it the object, *it* hands the address.

>What works is something like proc2_$get_info(p2_uid,&info,bufferlength,&status).Why? Is this some kind of apollo-ism, or something ANSI-like?
>
Standard ANSI C.

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