Passing array elements to functions

This tip submitted by Umer khan on 2010-10-27 21:19:28. It has been viewed 19642 times.
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When you pass full array as argument it passes as reference and their is no need of address operator(&), but when you pass a single array element it passes by value and you have to use address operator to pass it by reference (&)

Passing full array

fun(a);

Passing element of array

fun(&a[3]);

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