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I'll bear that one in mind, I tend to use pointers as i'm used to working with windows API functions and they all work that way - which seemed to be perfectly in line with all the tutorials that I...

Ah yes, that article explains it quite clearly, and it also mentions the confusion that it can cause and the recommendation to write it the other way :-)

Thanks for the replies folks, and...

Thanks yeah, I really want to understand why it works, that particular function was just an example I found.

It is my understanding that the whole point of using pointers is to avoid copying...

Hi,

I've read a lot of tutorials about pointers, However, I frequently see people use the & reference operator in a way that is not explained in any tutorials that I have read.

This is the kind...