My C is rusty... I need to review pointer/address-of syntax.  The idea for
the 3rd argument was to show one "passed by reference"; in any case
modifiable by the subroutine.

But where did x and y come from?

sas

On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 7:53 PM Frank Swarbrick <frank.swarbr...@outlook.com>
wrote:

> Also, "*k = x + y".
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> I'm guessing he meant "int *k" rather than "&int k".
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> On Sun, 26 Mar 2023 19:35:59 -0400, Steve Smith wrote:
>
> >I forgot to mention, to pass by value with CALL, you need [a] register[s].
> >e.g.:
> >void foo(int i, int j , &int k)
> >  {
> >  k = i + j;
> >  }
> >
> That shouldn't be legal.  In fact, gcc gives me:
>     cc     tinyc.c   -o tinyc
>     tinyc.c:3:25: error: expected parameter declarator
>     void foo(int i, int j , &int k)
>
> --
> gil
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