Thread: Quick Pointer Question

Hey all quick pointer question that I am not understanding...

The following is a quick code snippet of my full program.

Code:

void main()
{
**CODE**
int array[] = {10,20};
int i;
int loc = 0;


i = function(array, loc);
}

int function(int* array, int location)
{

int number = 1;
int j = 0;


j = array[location] + number;

return(j);
}

Again this is not my actual code so there may be syntx errors but the idea of what I want to do is there. I want to pass an array, add it to an internal value and then return that sum. However whenever I do this I am always recalling the memory location the variable is point to and not the value stored at that location. How to I solve this? Thank you for the help!

your understanding of the code snippet is the exact opposite of what's actually going on

Toonzaka, this is your program, with just the smallest amount of code to print up the returned value from the called function.

It works, just fine.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

void main()
{
//**CODE**
int array[] = {10,20};
int i;
int loc = 0;


  i = function(array, loc);
  printf("%d", i);
  getchar();


}

int function(int* array, int location)
{

int number = 1;
int j = 0;


j = array[location] + number;

return(j);
}

Output is 11. (10 + 1).

Arrays in C are zero based.