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Re: gmp 2.0.2 test buglet
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der Mouse |
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Re: gmp 2.0.2 test buglet |
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Wed, 6 Dec 2000 16:34:51 -0500 (EST) |
>> It is also unsettling, to say the least, to see a call-by-value
>> language like C appearing to use call-by-reference semantics, as is
>> done by the documented interface of practically all calls that have
>> output arguments.
> I think call by value would be difficult for any non-trivial type in
> C.
It works fine for structs (and, presumably, unions, though I haven't
used them much personally). And C has only three ways of constructing
compound types, namely, structs, unions, and arrays.
Though this is beginning to stray from gmp-related stuff....
der Mouse
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