Passing by reference in C

Question

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

#include 

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

int main() {
  int i = 20;         


        

Answer 1

Because there is no pass-by-reference in the above code. Using pointers (such as void func(int* p)) is pass-by-address. This is pass-by-reference in C++ (won't work in C):

void func(int& ref) {ref = 4;}

...
int a;
func(a);
// a is 4 now