RE: Using STATIC

> From: Jim Langston
>
> Actually, even with your given scenario, it is possible to still pass a
> pointer and have the calling function change the memory size.  Using C it
> could malloc/demalloc/remalloc.  But the pointer would be "owned" by the
> calling function, not the called function.

That's entirely opposite of what I said.  If the calling method is
performing the allocation, it needs to know the size, and thus is not OO.


> Given this, when would you see a good time to return a pointer to memory
> "owned" by a called function?

If I were returning pointers to statically defined objects in the called
method, or to memory allocated by the called method (such as a cache).  I
think I was pretty clear about this.

Joe