When sending a struct as a method argument, is it by copy or reference?

[fabri1983]

Hi. Silly question I couldn't get answered reading the wiki:
When sending a struct as a method argument, is it by copy or reference?
Thanks in advance.

[Frontear]

It is not copied. It passes the pointer address, so it behaves as if it were passed by reference.

Technically it's passing a pointer, but for all intents and purposes, they'll behave more or less similar enough to not care about this subtle difference.

[fabri1983]

Thanks for the reply.
By the way, there is also info in this post: https://hub.jmonkeyengine.org/t/project-junion-struct-types-for-java/40369/8

[TehLeo]

Yes, just as Frontear said, structs are passed by reference/pointer/long and not copied.