Paulo Flabiano Smorigo <pfsmorigo@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Is it possible to return a structure as the function return? Yes. This is a standard part of C/C++. > I made a program to test if it's possible and worked, but now I have a > few doubts: > - It's secure to use this procedure? Yes. > - It's a true structure return or something else? It's a true structure return. I'm not sure what else it could be. > - The ansi c standard allow this or it's a "plus" of gcc? The standard allows it. (There were compilers in the distant past for which returning a struct was not thread-safe, because they used a static variable to return the struct. However, those compilers are long dead. Returning a struct is perfectly safe these days.) Ian
