Thread: structure question: passing to functions

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    structure question: passing to functions

    Hi, I was just wondering whether it is possible to pass single elements of a structure to a function as arguments. For example, structure consists of a few int, but I am only interested in passing, let's say, two of them. Is it possible at all?

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    Yes.

    Code:
    struct foo
    {
        int iVal1;
        int iVal2;
    };
    
    void func(int i1, int i2)
    {
        // Do something with i1 and i2
    }
    
    int main(void)
    {
        struct foo bar;
        
        bar.iVal1 = 5;
        bar.iVal2 = 10;
    
        func(bar.iVal1,bar.iVal2);
    
        return 0;
    }
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    Oh, so there's nothing special to write in function declaration/definition as type, just int or float or whatever I use from the structure... I just need to modify the function call to use the structure elements. All right, thank you very much!

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    But it's useless. Why not just pass the entire address of the structure?

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    Why? So you can duplicate all of your functions that work with basic types so that they take arguments of every structure type you make? Talk about reinventing the wheel.

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