10-21-2004, 04:37 PM
Quote:pointers and references are very different things dude. References are aliases while pointers arent ;)Either way, the address of the variable (instead of it's value) is passed on the stack. While they may differ syntactically, they essentially boil down to the same thing when compiled.
EDIT: *reads posts above* Ooops, you're talking about Java not C... nevermind. I don't know anything about Java.