From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: how do i define structures ?
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 13:07:46 -0700
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Endlisnis wrote:

>         You do have to malloc the required space, but if you want to
> return a struct,
> then just do it!

Note that passing structures by value, rather than by reference (either
through pointers or C++ references) means that the entire struct is
being pushed onto and popped off of the stack.  This can be very
expensive, and potentially damaging, if all of a structure's members
(such as pointers to data, etc.) aren't self-contained; you can get
situations where you have two structure's with inconsistent states using
overlapping memory that are not taking into account the other.

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