On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 03:55:22PM -0500, Bob Rogers wrote: > So "aliasing" copies the pointer (i.e. the object itself), and > "assignment" copies the value?
Right. Note, however, that you have to *have* a pointer for "copying the pointer" to be meaningful. Thus, since I and N registers are not pointers, they can't support the semantics implied by := . -- Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>