Spoke too soon... whoops.

Put an asterisk before the type, indicating that the type is going to come in as a pointer to the data and not the actual data. Then when you call the method, you use the ampersand to pass a pointer to your data, like so:

(in some class definition somewhere. A C function would have slightly different syntax, shown below):
- (void) foo:(*int)bar {
  (*bar)++;
}

Then elsewhere,

int baz = 42;
NSLog(@"%d", baz);
[someReceiver foo:&baz];
NSLog(@"%d", baz);

You should see "42" printed, and then "43".

If you wanted to declare "foo" as a C function, you'd do it like so:

void foo (int *bar) {
  //same stuff
}

Welcome to the wonderful world of pointers.

Dave

On Dec 10, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Dave DeLong wrote:

Put the & before the variable type:

- (UInt32) traverseTreeStraightReturnedDirection: (&int)treeDirection...

HTH,

Dave

On Dec 10, 2008, at 8:43 AM, Nick Rogers wrote:

Hi,
I have the following in my .m file:


- (UInt32)traverseTreeStraightReturnedDirection:(int&)treeDirection
                          returnedTreeDepth:(int&)treeDepth
                                returnedKey:(HPlusCatalogKey&)catKey
                                 lookForKey:(HPlusCatalogKey)lastKey
{
// code here
}

But the error when compiling is "parse error before & token".
Is passing by reference not allowed or is there any other syntax that I should follow?

Thanks,
Nick
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