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]>

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