Thread: Confusion with global variables

I am getting strict orders to limit the number of global variables to be used. So i am trying to change the logic if possible. One such scenario is the application gives a request to transmit a group of messages and it is asynchronous. There is a cyclic task which will be doing this job of transmission. But how does it know that an application is requesting for transmission without global variables. Is it possible? Please advise.

If you must change your "global" variable inside a function, it is always possible to pass the pointer to a local variable from the caller. For example:

Code:

void do_something(int *);

int main( void )
{
  int state = 0;

  do_something( &state );
  // now 'state' is 1.
  ...  
}

void do_something( int *statep )
{
   // change *statep if you must!
   *statep = 1;
}

Technically, this 'state' variable isn't global...