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pointers - Passing by reference in C

If C does not support passing a variable by reference, why does this work?

#include <stdio.h>

void f(int *j) {
  (*j)++;
}

int main() {
  int i = 20;
  int *p = &i;
  f(p);
  printf("i = %d
", i);

  return 0;
}

Output:

$ gcc -std=c99 test.c
$ a.exe
i = 21 
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Because you're passing the value of the pointer to the method and then dereferencing it to get the integer that is pointed to.


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