Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!ulowell!masscomp!ftw
From: ftw@masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Problem returning doubles from a function
Message-ID: <1339@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 89 18:49:10 GMT
References: <39722@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie>
Reply-To: ftw@quasar.masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods)
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation - Westford, Ma
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In article <39722@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie> omahony@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie (Donal O'Mahony - OMAHONY@cs.tcd.ie) writes:
>Can anone explain the problem with the following program (made up of
>2 files).

I forgot to mention: the returned type of ``store_length'' is supposed to
be of type double, but since that fact is not mentioned in main.c, the
compiler assumes it's return type to be int.  Sticking a prototype in
main.c before you use store_length would be the best solution.

The argument passing in your example is still wrong, but it wasn't the reason
you got answers which surprised you.

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