Engineering Science 1036A/B Lecture 15: Arrays: Passing Arrays to Functions
10 May 2018
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The name of the array and size is passed to the function
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How to declare and invoke a function getting an array
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Pass by Reference
Starting address of the array is passed to the formal parameter
Called pass by reference: only the name of the array is passed
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The parameter inside the function references to the same array that is passed
to the function
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No new array is created in this process
The new array name becomes the alias of the old array name
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When passing an array to a function, the size should also be passed through a
another argument
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A function definition header may use square brackets with or without indicating
the size of the array inside the brackets
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Passing Arrays to Functions
