From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: how do I pass more than one value out of a function???
Date:	Sat, 20 Jun 1998 16:24:38 -0400
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Sal wrote:
> 
> I come from a pascal background... anyway, I know how to use a fundtion to
> ruturn a value.  What do I do to mave something that ruturns several
> values??

I recommend asking questions like these on comp.lang.c; it's for
C-specific issues, not DJGPP specific ones.

You return multiple values from a C function in precisely the same way
you do it in Pascal; you pass pointers to the variables you want to
alter as arguments to the function and modify those values.  Pascal
refers to this as VAR passing; it has the same effect.  You can also
create a struct to hold the values and return that from the function.

Please read a good C textbook such as _The New C Primer Plus, 2nd
Edition_, by Waite & Del Prata, or Kernighan and Ritchie's _The C
Programming Language, 2nd Edition_.  Both are extraordinarily
well-written and will give you all the information you need.

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