Lets say I'm iterating through an array, and I have a lot of operations on the array needed to alter it... int p = {1, 2,3,4 ...}; for(int i = 0; i < length_of_p; i++) { some_op(p+i); } void some_op(int *t) { /*do stuff with/to t*/ } In C++ I could simply do int &t in the function, and it'd be fine, but in C I have to use a pointer, which means a lot of dereferencing. Is there any way to efficiently have the same effect as &x = &y (having a variable "be" another variable, rather than just point to it) in plain C with GCC, or is that out of the question? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton