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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 11:34:55 +0100
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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Subject: Re: Is this a function or a structure???(once again, a
	mind-boggling example from Kernighan)
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On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 02:26:47AM -0800, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   On chapter 6 section 2 of The C Programming
> Language, the topic is Structures and Function.
> 
> His very first example for this topic contains the
> lines of code:
> 
> struct point makepoint(int x, int y)
> {
>   struct point temp;
>   temp.x = x;
>   temp.y = y;
>   return temp;
> }
> 
> As I can understand it, he is trying to declare a
> structure of type "point", and the value of that
> structure will be the return value of the function
> "makepoint", or is it a function definition?

No, he is defining a function 'makepoint' that returns a value of type
'struct point'.
'struct point' is presumably defined at some earlier point.

(At a guess 'struct point' is defined as:

  struct point
   {
   int x;
   int y;
   };

Such a definition would at least be reasonable, and consistent wwith
the usage of 'struct point' in the function 'makepoint')




-- 
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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se