Re: Paasing global variables to functions

In article <mn.e55c7d5777f717ac.15512@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Emmanuel Delahaye" <emdel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> ankisharma@xxxxxxxxx wrote on 28/07/05 :
> > At many places I have seen that programmers pass global variables
> > to functions in c.
>
> Sounds weird. If a variable has a global scope, it's inconsistent to
> pass it to a function (via a parameter, I guess)...

So you would you print the contents of a global variable using printf
(), for example?

> That said, better to avoid global scope variables at all...
.

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