Do all C compilers allow functions to return structures?
- by Jordan S
I am working on a program in C and using the SDCC compiler for a 8051 architecture device.
I am trying to write a function called GetName that will read 8 characters from Flash Memory and return the character array in some form. I know that it is not possible to return an array in C so I am trying to do it using a struct like this:
//********************FLASH.h file*******************************
MyStruct GetName(int i); //Function prototype
#define NAME_SIZE 8
typedef struct
{
char Name[NAME_SIZE];
} MyStruct;
extern MyStruct GetName(int i);
// *****************FLASH.c file***********************************
#include "FLASH.h"
MyStruct GetName( int i)
{
MyStruct newNameStruct;
//...
// Fill the array by reading data from Flash
//...
return newNameStruct;
}
I don't have any references to this function yet but for some reason, I get a compiler error that says "Function cannot return aggregate." Does this mean that my compiler does not support functions that return structs? Or am I just doing something wrong?
