Hello I'm totally new to C and trying to translate a matlab program to C.
The question I have is if it's ok to return a struct from a function. I know I should be using pointers but haven't really gotten the hang of it yet, and as i understand you don't have to use them but for speed purposes you should?
Anyways here is some code that I wonder if it's ok to use in C.
Is this way of coding an ok way?Code:typedef struct results { double F_TT_out; double F_PP_out; double F_GG_out; double F_HH_out; double F_SS_out; double F_EE_out; double Tout; } results; results the_under(results output_r); results the_over(results output_c); results the_process(//here there will be inputs){ results output_c; results output_r; values are assigned to output_r... double n_iter = 0; double E = 100; /* Error */ double last_temp_out = 10000 /* assigned value, will store the temp from previous iteration */ while (E>0.0001){ n_iter=n_iter+1; if(n_iter==????){ break; } output_c = the_under(output_r); output_r = the_over(output_c); E = fabs(last_temp_out-output_r.Tout); last_temp_out = output_r.Tout; } return //some struct } results the_under(results output_r){ results under; Calculations that assign values to the struct results under... return under; } results the_over(results output_r){ results over; Calculations that assign values to the struct results over... return over; }
Thank you so much for any answers!