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Re: [3.3/mainline;libiberty] Fix vasprintf.c

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: Josef Zlomek <zlomj9am at artax dot karlin dot mff dot cuni dot cz>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 18:48:05 +0200
Subject: Re: [3.3/mainline;libiberty] Fix vasprintf.c
References: <20031003111544.GA15008@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz><20031003132533.GA1527@alinoe.com>

Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com> writes:

> If it is an array, isn't passing by value and THEN copying
> it (again) a waste of cpu time?

An array always decays to a pointer to the first element when used as
a parameter type.

Andreas.

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References:
- [3.3/mainline;libiberty] Fix vasprintf.c
  - From: Josef Zlomek
- Re: [3.3/mainline;libiberty] Fix vasprintf.c
  - From: Carlo Wood

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