Programming Fundamentals - Lecture Notes

Chapter 11
Structure Types
(part-II)

Ms. Mamoona Tasadduq





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Slides: CS Deptt. Sharif University of Technology
Edited By: Dr. M. Aksam Iftikhar, CUI Lahore

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Lecture Outline
• Pointers and struct variables
– Pointer to struct
– Dereferring the pointer
• The arrow operator
– Self-referential structure
• Functions and struct variables
– Passing struct variables to function
• Pass-by-value
• Pass-by-reference
– Returning struct variables from function
• Scope of struct definition
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Pointer and Structure




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Pointer to struct: Definition
⮚A variable of struct type is also a variable.
⮚It has address, so we can have pointer to it.
struct std{
int id;
grade;
int
}; std st1;
struct std
*ps;
ps = &st1;
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