Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mit.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: pass by address Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 21:13:35 +0200 Organization: http://www.ieee.org/ Lines: 47 Message-ID: <87tx96he00.fsf@gmail.com> References: <877g63hsky.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mit.eternal-september.org; posting-host="30bb5ad9361424c1a1fd2d9061949084"; logging-data="14851"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19a90/tXFOrqIrc3wYUMvEGhOiZBdoH8H0=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fP13GwPPwsL3cke+W+DvNVUfJDg= sha1:nlaKhpysU4nktmR4JCE1gLQYDsE= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:43972 Barry Schwarz writes: > On Sat, 3 May 2014 14:08:32 +0000 (UTC), gazelle@shell.xmission.com > (Kenny McCormack) wrote: > >>In article <877g63hsky.fsf@gmail.com>, Richard wrote: >>>gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) writes: >>> >>>> In article , >>>> Barry Schwarz wrote: >>>> ... >>>>>>address using the &. But then that second parameter is an elipses and I >>>>>>haven't considered variable argument lists. Way over my head right now >>>>>>anyway. >>>>> >>>>>You might have an easier time understanding things if you didn't keep >>>>>throwing in unrelated issues at the last minute. Variable argument >>>>>lists have nothing to do with whether you pass an object's value or >>>>>its address to a function. That decision is based entirely on the >>>>>requirements of the function. >>>> >>>> YHBT >>> >>>Surely they know? >> >>You have to wonder. My sense (which seems also to be yours) is that they >>know but just don't care. Which is really sad - sadder than if they didn't >>know. >> >>They might as well be pontificating to /dev/null - but this seems to bother >>them not. Kind of like members of Congress spewing nonsense into the >>Congressional Record at 3 in the morning - benefiting no one as no one is >>listening. > > Yes, nothing we say will ever have any impact on Bill. > > But if some poor newcomer happens upon this group looking for advice, > I think it would be nice if they could see something that tells them > to ignore Bill's absurdities. Err yes. Proclamations that he's an idiot troll. Not reams and reams of yet more explanations of what a pointer is. -- "Avoid hyperbole at all costs, its the most destructive argument on the planet" - Mark McIntyre in comp.lang.c