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  3. May 2004

Re: Large Return values (was Re: Variable Length Field Question)

Brad Stone wrote: 
Ya, I've heard about this as well.  Is the suggestion then
to return pointers?  Does this also apply to passing
parameters that are large values, or just returning large
values?

Brad

Return a pointer to what? Not automatic storage, of course. Most practical solution is to not use a return value, but an output parameter. Then the pointer is all that is passed; the caller maintains the storage. Not as nice to code, alas. So the choice is between nice coding, with return values, when performance is not that important and somewhat uglier coding when performance does matter.

Joep Beckeringh

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