-=> Propably Rick Arding wrote to All <=-
 Hello Rick!
 RA> I was wondering what is the right way to pass a structure to a
 RA> subroutine.  I fiddled and fiddled and the below example works, but it
 RA> looks, well redundant.
 RA>
 RA>
 RA> THE STRUCTURE
 RA> struct Thing You = {1,1,'\@'};
 RA>
 RA>
 RA> THE CALL TO ShowThing
 RA> ShowThing(&You);
 RA>
 RA> THE FUNCTION
 RA> int ShowThing(struct Thing *T)
 RA> {
 RA> struct Thing TT;            /*CAN'T DEAL WITH THE PASSED STRUC*/
 RA> TT=*T;                      /*SO I HAVE TO USE A DUMMY ONE    */
 RA> gotoxy(TT.Across,TT.Down);
 RA> putch(TT.ThingChar);
 gotoxy(T->Across, T->Down);
 putch(T->ThingChar);
 RA> *T=TT;
 RA> return(1);                  /*THEN I COPY THE DUMMY TO *T    */
 RA>
 RA> }
 RA>
 RA> Is there a more logical way to do this?  Sometimes I think C just
 RA> isn't worth the effort, with all of its little idiosyncrasies.
 I had that proplem myself too.
 RA> Thanks
 RA> Rick Arding
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