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I can see the reference! (feddit.nl)

submitted 2 months ago by VitabytesDev@feddit.nl to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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HOLY SHIT!! IS THAT A MOTHERF*CKING C++ REFERENCE???

int& a = b;

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[–] TheEntity@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

An int& reference is just as much of a variable as int* const would be (a const pointer to a non-const int). "Variable" might be a misnomer here, but it takes just as much memory as any other pointer.