Вы хорошо используете указатель и точечную нотацию. Компилятор должен выдавать вам ошибки и / или предупреждения в случае возникновения проблемы.
Вот копия вашего кода с некоторыми дополнительными примечаниями и вещами, о которых следует подумать, в том числе об использовании структур и указателей, функций и области видимости переменных.
// Define the new variable type which is a struct.
// This definition must be visible to any function that is accessing the
// members of a variable of this type.
struct someStruct {
unsigned int total;
};
/*
* Modifies the struct that exists in the calling function.
* Function test() takes a pointer to a struct someStruct variable
* so that any modifications to the variable made in the function test()
* will be to the variable pointed to.
* A pointer contains the address of a variable and is not the variable iteself.
* This allows the function test() to modify the variable provided by the
* caller of test() rather than a local copy.
*/
int test(struct someStruct *state) {
state->total = 4;
return 0;
}
/*
* Modifies the local copy of the struct, the original
* in the calling function is not modified.
* The C compiler will make a copy of the variable provided by the
* caller of function test2() and so any changes that test2() makes
* to the argument will be discarded since test2() is working with a
* copy of the caller's variable and not the actual variable.
*/
int test2(struct someStruct state) {
state.total = 8;
return 0;
}
int test3(struct someStruct *state) {
struct someStruct stateCopy;
stateCopy = *state; // make a local copy of the struct
stateCopy.total = 12; // modify the local copy of the struct
*state = stateCopy; /* assign the local copy back to the original in the
calling function. Assigning by dereferencing pointer. */
return 0;
}
int main () {
struct someStruct s;
/* Set the value then call a function that will change the value. */
s.total = 5;
test(&s);
printf("after test(): s.total = %d\n", s.total);
/*
* Set the value then call a function that will change its local copy
* but not this one.
*/
s.total = 5;
test2(s);
printf("after test2(): s.total = %d\n", s.total);
/*
* Call a function that will make a copy, change the copy,
then put the copy into this one.
*/
test3(&s);
printf("after test3(): s.total = %d\n", s.total);
return 0;
}