[LCP]passing struct to function

[Greg Black]

On 2004-11-21, Carlos Pruitt, Jr. wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who replied.  It makes perfect sense now.  I am 
> almost halfway through Oreilly's Practical C Programming.  This is the 
> first real problem I have had.  It looks like I attempted to do a 
> mixture of both methods :P
> 
> As Greg pointed out I could have simply passed the address of my list to 
> the function or I could have declared a pointer, assigned the address of 
> my list to the pointer, then passed the pointer (not address to the 
> pointer) to the function.  I have tested both methods and they work fine.
> 
> Which of the two methods is preferred in the industry?  Or does it 
> really matter, as long as I am consistant?

There's no point in declaring an extra variable for this purpose
in this sort of program.  That's why my solution removed the
extra variable.  In general, anything that reduces complexity is
good; extra variables add complexity (to a small degree), and so
are best avoided.

Greg