Re: JNI Newbie - Modifying parameters in native method

Nomak <none@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> this system is called "passed by reference".

No, passing something by reference usually means you can alter a
variable in the caller. Think of the old swap(a,b) example from C
which you cannot do in Java because everything is passed by value.
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