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How function can return a value without writing return statement in its definition?help me out pls

C-and-Cpp Functions 03-04 min 40-50 sec 29-02-20, 12:02 p.m. HarryKaur

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A function (whose return type is NOT void), has to return something of the appropriate return type (e.g. int) using a return statement.  Otherwise the compiler will show an error.
29-02-20, 12:11 p.m. bhaskar76
but my function is giving answer without even writing a return value.
29-02-20, 12:35 p.m. HarryKaur
#include <stdio.h>
int square(int n)
{
   int s;
   s=n*n;
}
int  main()
{
   int m,r;
   scanf("%d",&m);
   r =square(m);
   printf("Square of number = %d",r);
   return 0;
}

29-02-20, 12:36 p.m. HarryKaur
Yes .. but the program typed in the videos, 
int add(int a,int b)
{
     int c = a + b;
}
int main()
{
   int sum;
   sum = add(5,4);
   printf("Sum of a and b is %d\\n",sum);
   return 0;
}



there is no return statement in the add(), still the sum is displayed correctly in the video.
hows it possible ?
29-02-20, 12:36 p.m. bles
Because when you don't write return statement it will return latest Accumulator (AL) value as a return value.
29-02-20, 2:28 p.m. kapilshukla2006

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This is possible with two different techniques.
1) Using Global Variable and
2) Using Pass by Address Method

Example-1:
int k;
void increment();
int main()
{
increment();
printf("%d",k);
return 0;
}

void increment()
{
k=k+1;
}

Example-2:

void increment(int *);

int main()
{
int k=5;
increment(&k);
printf("%d",k);
return 0;
}

void increment(int *p)
{
*p = *p + 1;
}
29-02-20, 12:16 p.m. kapilshukla2006
I am using neither of these ways but still it is working

#include <stdio.h>
int square(int n)
{
   int s;
   s=n*n;
}
int  main()
{
   int m,r;
   scanf("%d",&m);
   r =square(m);
   printf("Square of number = %d",r);
   return 0;
}

29-02-20, 12:58 p.m. HarryKaur
Yes, True but it return the last used parameter value (value in AL).
So your functions return type and parameters must be matched accordingly.
like
int test(int p,int q, int r)
{
 int a,b,c;
a=p;
b=q;
c=r;
}

called like:
test(1,2,3);

it will return 3.
29-02-20, 2:23 p.m. kapilshukla2006

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Use the following program to avoid warning
----------------------------------------------------------
nt add(int a,int b)
{
     int c = a + b;
     return c;
}
int main()
{
   int sum;
   sum = add(5,4);
   printf("Sum of a and b is %d\\n",sum);
   return 0;
}
Dr.R.Senthilkumar,IRTT,Tamilnadu
06-12-21, 11 a.m. Rsenthil_1976

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