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From: cleon@ut-emx.UUCP (Doug McNaught)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: HELP (easy -)) - Open & Close Picture
Summary: No, Pascal passes everything bigger than a longword (32 bits),
	 by reference, so the ampersand should be there.
Message-ID: <11320@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 89 17:22:58 GMT
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Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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> >	picH = OpenPicture(&picSize);	/* start "recording" picture */
>> I don't think the picsize rect parameter
>> is a var, I think OpenPicture wants the parameter to be call by value,
>> but I could be wrong since I'm going from memory, any comments from
>> anyone who's not too lazy to acutally look this thing up???
>> -- 
 As I said in the summary, OpenPicture does take a rect as a value (not VAR)
parameter, BUT pascal passes composite objects bigger than 32 bits by reference
anyway, so the ampersand *should* be there. 

Doug Mcnaught   cleon@emx.utexas.edu (campus)
university of texas at austin