On Sep 21, 2016, at 17:05 , Gabriel Zachmann <z...@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
>
> In other words, the compiler unifies the two occurrences of the two literals,
> thus effectively storing only one literal?
Correct.
> So what would be the proper way to do it?
A global variable has a fixed, unique memory address, so you can do this:
static int MyContext;
// does not need to be extern, just defined at the top level scope of
some file, usually the relevant class implementation .m file
// type doesn’t matter, because the value is never used
But you can take advantage of a C quirk and actually write this:
static void* MyContext = &MyContext;
This has the interesting property that MyContext == &MyContext, which means you
don’t have to worry about remembering the “&" operator when passing or testing
the “context” parameter.
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