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Suppose I have a function foo:

void foo(int x, int y) {

printf(" %d ", y);
x = y;


}

I have two ints a and b.
a = 7;
b = 7;
then I call foo(a, ++b);

For some reason at the end of running foo, I get a = 7 and b = 8.

Why do I not have a = b = 8?

Thank you much!

jobo wrote:
> Suppose I have a function foo:
>
> void foo(int x, int y) {
>
> printf(" %d ", y);
> x = y;
>
>
> }
>
> I have two ints a and b.
> a = 7;
> b = 7;
> then I call foo(a, ++b);
>
> For some reason at the end of running foo, I get a = 7 and b = 8.
>
> Why do I not have a = b = 8?

Because x is local to the function foo. In C function arguments
are passed by value, not by reference. If you want a function to
change an object in the calling function, you must pass in a pointer:

void foo(int *x, int y)
{
*x = y;
}

and call it:

int a, b;
....
foo(&a, b);

--
Thomas M. Sommers -- -- AB2SB

jobo wrote:

> Suppose I have a function foo:
>
> void foo(int x, int y) {
>
> printf(" %d ", y);
> x = y;
> }

The assignment of `y` to `x` is pointless; `x` is a local
variable that will evaporate when `foo` returns.

> I have two ints a and b.
> a = 7;
> b = 7;
> then I call foo(a, ++b);
>
> For some reason at the end of running foo, I get a = 7 and b = 8.

Well, yes. You assigned `7` to `a` and `b` and incremented `b`.
Calling `foo` doesn't change that.

> Why do I not have a = b = 8?

Because the assignment of `y` to `x` is pointless; `x` is a local
variable that will evaporate when `foo` returns.

--
Chris "echo echo" Dollin
"Never ask that question!" Ambassador Kosh, /Babylon 5/

jobo wrote:
> Suppose I have a function foo:
>
> void foo(int x, int y) {
>
> printf(" %d ", y);
> x = y;
>
>
> }
>
> I have two ints a and b.
> a = 7;
> b = 7;
> then I call foo(a, ++b);
>
> For some reason at the end of running foo, I get a = 7 and b = 8.
>
> Why do I not have a = b = 8?

C passes values. When you call 'foo', the values in your a and b
variables are "copied" to the variables x and y. After that there's no
relation between a,b and x,y.