Re: php Similar to C in Pointer Memory Accessing or not?
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Fri, 19 Jul 2002 00:19:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: php Similar to C in Pointer Memory Accessing or not? | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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>The last statement does not generate an error but lets you
>access that location...
That's because C is broken :-)
>Firstly I want to know if PHP has pointers
PHP does not have a 'pointer' type. Read the manual.
>(I know it uses
>dereferencing values via &) and if it does use pointers
>does it let you do stuff like this (or does its nature not
>let you interact with the lower level hardware components?
It doesn't let you do that, and that has nothing to do with lower level
hardware components. You're still about 4 or 5 layers away from hardware at
that point...
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