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On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 02:04:45PM +0100, Nigel Rantor wrote:
> Jon Nangle wrote:
>> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:49:38AM +0100, Nigel Rantor wrote:
>>> example, why passing a char* rather than a char[1024] is likely to be 
>>> more efficient.
>> How do you pass a char[1024] in C? Surely arrays will always decay into
>> pointers anyway.
> Err, by value?

Could you give an example of the syntax that you use to pass an array "by
value"?

> It was an example, perhaps I should have used C++ where you might want 
> to pass large objects by value until you realise that they're huge and 
> copying them onto the stack is a performance hit.

Sure, except that in C, I can't think of the possible syntax you'd use for
doing it.

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