From:	DavMac AT iname DOT com (Davin McCall)
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Subject:	Re: HELP ! (returning structures)
Date:	Wed, 29 Sep 1999 02:05:49 GMT
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Something like this:

struct DATE GetDate(void)
{
  struct DATE x;
  x.day_of_week = GetDayOfWeek();
  x.year = ...
  ....
  return x;
}

Davin.

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 02:57:07 +0300, "stefan fröberg"
<traveler AT netti DOT fi> wrote:

>How can functions return whole structures ?
>
>Example:
>
>struct    DATE
>{
>    unsigned char    day_of_week;
>    unsigned short    year;
>    unsigned char    month;
>    unsigned char    day;
>}
>
>extern    struct DATE    GetDate(void);
>
>int    main(void)
>{
>    struct   DATE    today;
>    today = GetDate();
>    printf("%u\n",today.day_of_week);
>    printf("%U\n",today.year);
>    printf("%u\n",today.month);
>    printf("%u\n",today.day);
>}
>
>"Just a traveler..."
>traveler AT netti DOT fi
>
>
>
>
>

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