Here is a simple code which explains some basic concept
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#include <stdio.h>
int add(int a, int b)//pass by value function
{
return a+b;
}
int addr(int *c,int *d)//pass by reference function
{
return( *c + *d );
}
int main()
{
//printf("Hello, World!\n");
int a,b;
printf("enter 2 digits");
scanf("%d%d", &a,&b);
printf("there sum is %d",add(a,b)); //invoking pass by value
int *p; //creating a pointer to variable
p=&a;
*p=26;
printf("\nmodified value of a is %d",a);
printf("\n using reference\n");
printf("%d",addr(&a,&b)); //invoking pass by reference function
return 0;
}
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But somehow, it did not work in linux. "using namespace std" did not help.
So, i thought of some online editor and it eased the job.
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however similar thing in addr() affecting value of passed variable(as address of the variable is being passed and not the value of it.
The happiness to see the concepts being understood made me happy as well and scribble down the same scriplet here as well..
hey the return type for both are int?? for value its int and for address its int& right? correct me if i m wrong
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reply :-) The arguments being accepted by a function need not be same as the return type of the function. So, although we are accepting address of a variable in addr() function as int* and working on that address in the function, we need not return the address itself from that function. So, return type int is valid.
DeleteBelow is one more code snippet I have given for testing the above concept. In addr function we accept 2 ints but we are returning a char from there.
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#include
char addr(int a, int b)
{
int c=a+b;
return (char)c;
}
int main(void) {
// your code goes here
int a,b;
printf("enter any 2 digits whose sum is <255\n");
scanf("%d%d",&a,&b);
printf("Unicode char for the digit %c",addr(65,1)) ;
return 0;
}
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Although error handling code is not included in above code, you can test with any digits whose sum is < 255 so that you can get its Unicode character.
Eg: 65 and 1