>You mean passing structures to functions rather then tons of single
>arguments?
Yes.
>If you pass the structure through a pointer you have the lowest costs.
>One pointer value instead of lots of value arguments.
But let's look how it looks like:
struct foo_arg args = {
.arg1 = arg1,
.arg2 = arg2,
...
};
<--- we occupy stack space here
foo(&args);
void foo(struct foo_arg *args)
{
args->arg1 <--- we used pointer so we it slower then just
arg1
//often used argument
arg2 = args->arg2<-- we occupy stack space twice
}
>But I don't think it increases the clarity if you pack up all function
>arguments that have more then 2 values.
lets `foo' looks like:
void foo(int par1, int par2, int par3, int par4, int par5);
if we call it like this
foo(a + b, (c + d) << e, ...);
it is rather complex understand what's going on, but
struct foo_args args = {
.par1 = a + b,
.par2 = (c + d) << e,
};
foo(&args);
this code looks more clear for me.
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