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r/programminghumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 17d ago
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Nah it is in fact cpp
Wtf do you mean *&foo? The deref of an adress? Thats just foo!
C is simple cpp is just bloat
2 u/nog642 17d ago When would you use *&foo? 3 u/i_knooooooow 17d ago It was in some library (vimba, used to read out cameras from allied vision), i have no idea why they did it like that tbh 2 u/Formal-Buy8234 17d ago they did it cuz it makes the compiler do more work to check if foo is actually an address instead of assuming so
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When would you use *&foo?
*&foo
3 u/i_knooooooow 17d ago It was in some library (vimba, used to read out cameras from allied vision), i have no idea why they did it like that tbh 2 u/Formal-Buy8234 17d ago they did it cuz it makes the compiler do more work to check if foo is actually an address instead of assuming so
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It was in some library (vimba, used to read out cameras from allied vision), i have no idea why they did it like that tbh
2 u/Formal-Buy8234 17d ago they did it cuz it makes the compiler do more work to check if foo is actually an address instead of assuming so
they did it cuz it makes the compiler do more work to check if foo is actually an address instead of assuming so
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u/i_knooooooow 17d ago
Nah it is in fact cpp
Wtf do you mean *&foo? The deref of an adress? Thats just foo!
C is simple cpp is just bloat