Re: [Dev-C++] Passing by value or reference to constructorinitialiation list

[Daniel G. <sp...@ho...>]

Well I think passing by reference is better because the objects could be 
large, which means more on the stack and thus more overhead, but are there 
any side effects to passing by reference to the constructor in this way?


>From: Banjo Donila <ner...@my...>
>To: Daniel Glenfield <sp...@ho...>
>Subject: Re: [Dev-C++] Passing by value or reference to 
>constructorinitialiation list
>Date: 10 Jan 2003 17:49:28 +0800
>
>it depends on what you want to happen
>
>On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 17:19, Daniel Glenfield wrote:
> >
> >
> > I would like to know whether it is better to pass the following string
> > objects and integer by value or reference to my constructor 
>initialisation
> > list.
> >
> > Vehicle::Vehicle
> > (
> >     String& VehicleName,
> >     String& VehicleType,
> >     int SerialNumber
> > ):
> > mVehicleName(VehicleName),
> > mVehicleType(VehicleType),
> > mSerialNumber(SerialNumber)
> > {
> > }
> >
> > an integer is only 4 bytes I think, so by value would be fine, but what
> > about the string objects? Can I pass by reference?
> >
> >
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