Passing a pointer to an array of structs to a function

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I'm having trouble interpreting this sentence into code: A function called max_occurences() that has a pointer to an array of struct occurrences as an argument.

My understanding is that they mean something like this:

int max_occurences(struct occurrence *occurrences[])

But this appears to be wrong. Can someone help me understand what it's suppose to look like? I'm really confused.

Thats an array of pointers to structs (2 level of indirection). You should just lose either the * or the []. You may also want to pass a length value to indicate how many items are in your array. Unless of course its terminated with some sort of sentinel value. — Paul Rooney
– Paul Rooney, Commented Apr 27, 2017 at 4:14

ameyCU · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-27 04:29:05Z

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int max_occurences(struct occurrence *occurrences[])

The argument here is array of pointers to struct occurrence.

A pointer to an array of struct occurrence would be declared as -

struct occurrence (*occurrences)[3];

So your argument should be -

int max_occurences(struct occurrence (*occurrences)[])

answered Apr 27, 2017 at 4:29

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