Re: Help with QSYCUSRA API - Check User Authority

[Barbara Morris <bmorris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Wilt, Charles wrote:
> ...
> But maybe I'm over thinking it, thinking too much about what's going on behind the scenes instead of
> up front.  Just seems wrong to me to say char(*) isn't a pointer....
> ...

How about bin(4) or char(10)?  I think that if you want to say char(*) 
is a pointer, then you have to be willing to say that every type is a 
pointer.

Consider the case where the parameter really is a pointer; if you pass 
it by reference, then under the covers, you pass a pointer to a pointer. 
 I think that's the only case where we should say that the parameter 
type is a pointer.  If we try to use the "pointer" terminology for other 
types, it would be very difficult to talk about true pointer parameters.