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Subject: Re: Any reason to use C?

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 10:34:13 07/29/03

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On July 28, 2003 at 19:08:36, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>On July 28, 2003 at 19:00:41, Dieter Buerssner wrote:
>>It may even be a performance issue. I read your suggestion about the small
>>inline functions vs. macros. I basically agree. But when using reference
>>paramaters (your example did), things might be very different. This might make
>>it very difficult or even impossible to make a good optimization for the
>>compiler.
>
>I'm afraid I didn't get this point. What is the practical difference between
>passing by reference, and sending a pointer?

My comparision was meant to be between a macro and a function, that needs a
pointer argument, and not between passing by reference or by an explicit pointer
argument. I tried to give an example in the answer to Gerd.

Regards,
Dieter



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