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Art – (butting in here) Are you sure BM passes the whole structure? My understanding of variable parameters vs. value parameters is that with variable parameters only the address of the structure is pushed onto the stack. In other words, your examples would be equivalent in what was put on the stack, though not in what would be required by the parser to compile (i.e., in the first case the address of a stack or global variable _or_ a pointer to a memory-allocated area would do, whereas in the second case only a stack or global variable could be passed). I could always be wrong (it happens all the time 8^) ) but that's the way I've always thought about it. Harry