On 8/29/07, Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? Not possible without pointers. In fact, the C++ version using &t expands to almost the same code you'd have with pointers in C. Try using -fdump-tree-optimized on the C++ version.