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  1. Course Contents School of Computer Engineering

  2. What is a function? Knowingly or unknowingly we rely on so many persons for so many things. A person is an intelligent species, but still cannot perform all of life’s tasks all alone. She/he has to rely on others. You may call a mechanic to fix up your bike, hire a gardener to mow your lawn, or rely on a store to supply you groceries every month. A computer program (except for the simplest one) finds itself in a similar situation. It cannot handle all the tasks by itself. Instead, it requests other program like entities called ‘functions’ in C to get its tasks done. What is a function? A function is a self-contained block of statements that perform a coherent task of some kind. Every C program can be thought of as a collection of these functions. As we noted earlier, using a function is something like hiring a person to do a specific job for you. Sometimes the interaction with this person is very simple; sometimes it’s complex. Suppose you have a task that is always performed exactly in the same way—say a bimonthly servicing of your motorbike. When you want it to be done, you go to the service station and say, “It’s time, do it now”. You don’t need to give instructions, because the mechanic knows his job. You don’t need to be told when the job is done. You assume the bike would be serviced in the usual way, the mechanic does it and that’s that. School of Computer Engineering

  3. Function Example • Let us now look at a simple C function that operates in much the same way as the mechanic. Actually, we will be looking at two things—a function that calls or activates the function and the function itself. • message( ) • { • printf ( "\nSmile, and the world smiles with you..." ) ; • } • int main( ) • { • message( ) ; • printf ( "\nCry, and you stop the monotony!" ) ; • return 0; • } School of Computer Engineering

  4. Function Example cont… • int main( ) • { • printf ( "\nI am in main" ) ; • itlay( ) ; • brazil( ) ; • argentina( ) ; • return 0; • } • brazil( ) • { • printf ( "\nI am in brazil " ) ; • } • argentina( ) • { • printf ( "\nI am in argentina" ) ; • } • itlay( ) • { • printf ( "\nI am in itlay" ) ; • } School of Computer Engineering

  5. Function Example Observations • Any C program contains at least one function. • If a program contains only one function, it must be main( ). • If a C program contains more than one function, then one (and only one) of these functions must be main( ), because program execution always begins with main( ). • There is no limit on the number of functions that might be present in a C program. • Each function in a program is called in the sequence specified by the function calls in main( ). • After each function has done its thing, control returns to main( ).When main( ) runs out of function calls, the program ends. School of Computer Engineering

  6. Function Example • brazil( ) • { • printf ( "\nI am in brazil " ) ; • argentina( ); • printf ( "\nI am back in brazil" ) ; • } • argentina( ) • { • printf ( "\nI am in argentina" ) ; • } • itlay( ) • { • printf ( "\nI am in itlay" ) ; • brazil( ); • printf ( "\nI am back in itlay" ) ; • } • int main( ) • { • printf ( "\nI am in main" ) ; • itlay( ) ; • printf ( "\nI am back in main" ) ; • return 0; • } School of Computer Engineering

  7. Summarize what we have learnt so far • C program is a collection of one or more functions. • A function gets called when the function name is followed by a semicolon. For example, • int main( ) • { • argentina( ) ; • return 0; • } • A function is defined when function name is followed by a pair of braces in which one or more statements may be present. For example, • argentina( ) • { • statement 1 ; • statement 2 ; • statement 3 ; • } School of Computer Engineering

  8. Summarize what we have learnt so far • Any function can be called from any other function. Even main( ) can be called from other functions. For example, • message( ) • { • printf ( "\nCan't imagine life without C" ) ; • main( ) ; • } • int main( ) • { • message( ) ; • return 0; • } • A function can be called any number of times. For example, • message( ) • { • printf ( "\nJewel Thief!!" ) ; • } • int main( ) • { • message( ) ; • message( ) ; • return 0; • } School of Computer Engineering

  9. Summarize what we have learnt so far • The order in which the functions are defined in a program and the order in which they get called need not necessarily be same. For example – • message2( ) • { • printf ( "\nBut the butter was bitter" ) ; • } • message1( ) • { • printf ( "\nMary bought some butter" ) ; • } • int main( ) • { • message1( ) ; • message2( ) ; • return 0; • } • Here, even though message1( ) is getting called before message2( ), still, message1( ) has been defined after message2( ). However, it is advisable to define the functions in the same order in which they are called. This makes the program easier to understand. School of Computer Engineering

  10. Summarize what we have learnt so far • A function can call itself. Such a process is called ‘recursion’. We would discuss this aspect of C functions later in this chapter. • There are basically two types of functions: • Library functions Ex. printf( ), scanf( ) etc. • User-defined functions Ex. argentina( ), brazil( ) etc. • As the name suggests, library functions are nothing but commonly required functions grouped together and stored in what is called a Library. This library of functions is present on the disk and is written for us by people who write compilers for us. Almost always a compiler comes with a library of standard functions. The procedure of calling both types of functions is exactly same. • A function can be called from other function, but a function cannot be defined in another function. School of Computer Engineering

  11. Why are functions needed? • It breaks up a program into easily manageable chunks and makes programs significantly easier to understand. • Well written functions may be reused in multiple programs. e.g.. The C standard library functions. • Functions can be used to protect data. • Different programmers working on one large project can divide the workload by writing different functions. • Avoids rewriting the same code over and over What is the moral of the story? • Don’t try to cram the entire logic in one function. It is a very bad style of programming. Instead, break a program into small units and write functions for each of these isolated subdivisions. Don’t hesitate to write functions that are called only once. What is important is that these functions perform some logically isolated task. School of Computer Engineering

  12. Function Definition • The general form of function definition statement is as follows: • return_data_typefunction_name (data_type variable1,...) Function header • { • declarations; • statements; • return(expression); • } Function Body • function_name : • This is the name given to the function • it follows the same naming rules as that for any valid variable in C. • return_data_type: • This specifies the type of data given back to the calling construct by the function after it executes its specific task. School of Computer Engineering

  13. Class Work (CW) Arguments with return values • Write a function to add two values of type integer and returns the result • Write a function to subtract two values of type float and returns the result • Write a function to multiply two values of type int & double and returns the result No arguments with return values • Write a function to accept an input from the user and returns to main. No arguments with no return values • Write a function to accept an input from the user and print the value Arguments with no return values • Write a function to calculate and display the area of the circle School of Computer Engineering

  14. Passing Values between Function • int main() • { • int a, b, c, sum ; • printf ( "\nEnter any three numbers " ) ; • scanf ( "%d %d %d", &a, &b, &c ) ; • sum = calsum ( a, b, c ) ; • printf ( "\nSum = %d", sum ) ; • return 0; • } • calsum ( int x, int y, int z ) • { • int d ; • d = x + y + z ; • return d ; • } • a, b, c are called actual arguments • x, y and z are called formal arguments • main is the calling function and calsum is the called function • There are 2 ways of declaring formal arguments • calsum ( x, y, z ) • int x, y, z ; • calsum (int x, int y, int z ) School of Computer Engineering

  15. Function return statement • There is no restriction on the number of return statements that may be present in a function. Also, the return statement need not always be present at the end of the called function. The following program illustrates these facts. • int fun( ) • { • char ch ; • printf ( "\nEnter any alphabet " ) ; • scanf ( "%c", &ch ) ; • if ( ch >= 65 && ch <= 90 ) • return ( ch ) ; • else • return ( ch + 32 ) ; • } School of Computer Engineering

  16. Function return statement • If we want that a called function should not return any value, in that case, we must mention so by using the keyword void as shown below. • void display( ) • { • printf ( "\nHeads I win..." ) ; • printf ( "\nTails you lose" ) ; • } • A function can return only one value at a time. Thus, the following statements are invalid. • return ( a, b ) ; • return ( x, 12 ) ; School of Computer Engineering

  17. Argument Changes • If the value of a formal argument is changed in the called function, the corresponding change does not take place in the calling function. For example, • fun ( int b ) • { • b = 60 ; • printf ( "\n%d", b ) ; • } • int main( ) • { • int a = 30 ; • fun ( a ) ; • printf ( "\n%d", a ) ; • return 0; • } Output • 60 • 30 • Even though the value of b is changed in fun( ), the value of a in main( ) remains unchanged. This means that when values are passed to a called function the values present in actual arguments are not physically moved to the formal arguments; just a photocopy of values in actual argument is made into formal arguments. School of Computer Engineering

  18. Scope Rule of Functions • In this program is it necessary to pass the value of the variable i to the function display( )? Will it not become automatically available to the function display( )? No. Because by default the scope of a variable is local to the function in which it is defined. The presence of i is known only to the function main( ) and not to any other function. Similarly, the variable k is local to the function display( ) and hence it is not available to main( ). That is why to make the value of i available to display( ) we have to explicitly pass it to display( ). Likewise, if we want k to be available to main( ) we will have to return it to main( ) using the return statement. In general we can say that the scope of a variable is local to the function in which it is defined. • Look at the following • program: • display ( int j ) • { • int k = 35 ; • printf ( "\n%d", j ) ; • printf ( "\n%d", k ) ; • } • int main( ) • { • int i = 20 ; • display ( i ) ; • return 0; • } School of Computer Engineering

  19. Calling Convention • Calling convention indicates the order in which arguments are passed to a function when a function call is encountered. There are two possibilities here: • Arguments might be passed from left to right. • Arguments might be passed from right to left. • C language follows the second order. Consider the following function call: • fun (a, b, c, d ) ; In this call it doesn’t matter whether the arguments are passed from left to right or from right to left. • However, in some function call the order of passing arguments becomes an important consideration. For example: • int a = 1 ; • printf ( "%d %d %d", a, ++a, a++ ) ; • It appears that this printf( ) would output 1 2 3. This however is not the case. Surprisingly, it outputs 3 3 1 School of Computer Engineering

  20. Dicey Issue • int i = 10, j = 20 ; • printf ( "%d %d %d ", i, j ) ; • printf ( "%d", i, j ) ; • At run-time when the first printf( ) is executed, since there is no variable matching with the last specifier %d, a garbage integer gets printed. • Similarly, in the second printf( ) since the format specifier for j has not been mentioned its value does not get printed. School of Computer Engineering

  21. Function Default Return Type • Any C function by default returns an int value. More specifically, whenever a call is made to a function, the compiler assumes that this function would return a value of the type int. If we desire that a function should return a value other than an int, then it is necessary to explicitly mention so in the calling function as well as in the called function. Suppose we want to find out square of a number using a function. This is how this simple program would look like: • And here are three sample runs of this program... • Enter any number 3 • Square of 3 is 9.000000 • Enter any number 2.5 • Square of 2.5 is 6.000000 • square ( float x ) • { • float y ; • y = x * x ; • return y; • } • int main( ) • { • float a, b ; • printf ( "\nEnter any number " ) ; • scanf ( "%f", &a ) ; • b = square ( a ) ; • printf ( "\nSquare of %f is %f", a, b ) ; • return 0; • } How to resolve? • Define the return type of square as float and declaring a function prototype as • float square ( float ) ; • at the beginning of the program School of Computer Engineering

  22. Function Prototype • Provides the compiler with the description of functions that will be used later in the program • Its define the function before it been used/called • Function prototypes need to be written at the beginning of the program. • The function prototype must have : • A return type indicating the variable that the function will be return • Function Prototype Examples: • double squared(double); • void print_report(int); • int get_menu_choice(void); School of Computer Engineering

  23. Function Prototype Example • void area() • { • float area_circle; • float rad; • printf("\nEnter the radius : "); • scanf("%f",&rad); • area_circle = 3.14 * rad * rad ; • printf("Area of Circle = %f",area_circle); • } • #include<stdio.h> • // Prototype Declaration • void area(); • int main() • { • area(); • return 0; • } Class Work • Write a function to add 3 numbers • Write a function to compute nk where n and k are supplied by user • Write a function to reverse a number School of Computer Engineering

  24. Function Call by Value and Call by Reference • Whenever we called a function and passed something to it we have always passed the ‘values’ of variables to the called function. Such function calls are called ‘calls by value’. By this what we mean is, on calling a function we are passing values of variables to it. The examples of call by value are shown below: • sum = calsum ( a, b, c ) ; • We have also learnt that variables are stored somewhere in memory. So instead of passing the value of a variable, can we not pass the location number (also called address) of the variable to a function? If we were able to do so it would become a ‘call by reference’. • Arguments can generally be passed to functions in one of the two ways: • sending the values of the arguments • sending the addresses of the arguments School of Computer Engineering

  25. Function Call by Value and Call by Reference Call by Value Call by Reference • swapByValue ( int x, int y ) • { • int t ; • t = x ; • x = y ; • y = t ; • printf ( "\nx = %d y = %d", x, y ) ; • } • int main( ) • { • int a = 10, b = 20 ; • swapByValue( a, b ) ; • printf ( "\na = %d b = %d", a, b ) ; • return 0; • } • swapByRef ( int *x, int *y ) • { • int t ; • t = *x ; • *x = *y ; • *y = t ; • printf ( "\nx = %d y = %d", *x, *y ) ; • } • int main( ) • { • int a = 10, b = 20 ; • swapByRef( &a, &b ) ; • printf ( "\na = %d b = %d", a, b ) ; • return 0; • } School of Computer Engineering

  26. Recursion • In C, it is possible for the functions to call themselves. A function is called ‘recursive’ if a statement within the body of a function calls the same function. Suppose we want to calculate the factorial value of an integer. Recursive function Non-recursive function • rec ( int x ) • { • int f ; • if ( x == 1 ) • return ( 1 ) ; • else • f = x * rec ( x - 1 ) ; • return f ; • } • int main( ) • { • int a, fact ; • printf ( "\nEnter any number " ) ; • scanf ( "%d", &a ) ; • fact = rec ( a ) ; • printf ( "Factorial value = %d", fact ) ; • return 0; • } • factorial ( int x ) • { • int f = 1, i ; • for ( i = x ; i >= 1 ; i-- ) • f = f * i ; • return f ; • } • int main( ) • { • int a, fact ; • printf ( "\nEnter any number " ) ; • scanf ( "%d", &a ) ; • fact = factorial ( a ) ; • printf ( "Factorial value = %d", fact ) ; • return 0; • } School of Computer Engineering

  27. Recursive Invocation Ladder • Assume that the number entered through scanf( ) is 5, so invocation ladder is as follows • rec ( 5 ) returns ( 5 times rec ( 4 ), • which returns ( 4 times rec ( 3 ), • which returns ( 3 times rec ( 2 ), • which returns ( 2 times rec ( 1 ), • which returns ( 1 ) ) ) ) ) School of Computer Engineering

  28. Recursion Control Flow • Assume that the number entered through scanf( ) is 3 School of Computer Engineering

  29. Recursion Example - GCD Non-recursive function Recursive function • int gcd(int a, int b) • { • if(a==b) • return a; • else if (a>b) • gcd(a-b, b); • else • gcd(a, b-a); • } • int main( ) • { • int a, b, g; • printf(“\nEnter two numbers:”); • scanf(“%d%d”, &a, &b); • printf(“GCD of %d & %d=%d\n”,a, b, gcd(a,b)); • return 0; • } • int gcd(int a, int b) • { • while(a!=b) • { • if(a>b) • a = a-b; • else if (b>a) • b = b-a; • } • return a; • } • int main( ) • { • int a, b, g; • printf(“\nEnter two numbers:”); • scanf(“%d%d”, &a, &b); • printf(“GCD of %d & %d=%d\n”,a, b, gcd(a,b)); • return 0; • } School of Computer Engineering

  30. Arrays and Function • Array elements can be passed to a function by calling the function by value, or by reference. In the call by value we pass values of array elements to the function, whereas in the call by reference we pass addresses of array elements to the function. Demonstration of call by value Demonstration of call by reference • displayByValue( int m ) • { • printf ( "%d ", m ) ; • } • int main( ) • { • int i ; • int marks[ ] = { 55, 65, 75, 56, 78, 78, 90 } ; • for ( i = 0 ; i <= 6 ; i++ ) • { • displayByValue(marks[i]) ; • } • return 0; • } • dispByReference ( int *n ) • { • printf ( "%d ", *n ) ; • } • int main( ) • { • int i ; • int marks[ ] = { 55, 65, 75, 56, 78, 78, 90 } ; • for ( i = 0 ; i <= 6 ; i++ ) • { • dispByReference(&marks[i]) ; • } • return 0; • } School of Computer Engineering

  31. Class Work (CW) CW 1 – Demonstration of call by value for 2-D array • Declare and initialize the 2-D array and demonstrate the call by value by printing each element of the array CW 2 – Demonstration of call by reference for 2-D array • Declare and initialize the 2-D array and demonstrate the call by reference by printing each element of the array School of Computer Engineering

  32. Passing 1-D Array to Function • Let us now see how to pass an entire array to a function rather than its individual elements. Approach 1 Approach 2 • void display(int *, int); /* Function Prototype */ • int main( ) • { • int num[ ] = { 24, 34, 12, 44, 56, 17 } ; • display (&num[0], 6 ) ; • return 0; • } • display ( int *j, int n ) • { • int i ; • for ( i = 0 ; i <= n - 1 ; i++ ) • { • printf ( "\n element = %d", *j ) ; • j++ ; /* increment pointer to point to next element */ • } • } • display(int [], int); /* Function Prototype */ • int main( ) • { • int num[ ] = { 24, 34, 12, 44, 56, 17 } ; • display(num, 6) ; • return 0; • } • display ( int j[], int n ) • { • int i ; • for ( i = 0 ; i <= n - 1 ; i++ ) • { • printf ( "\n element = %d", j[i]) ; • } • } School of Computer Engineering

  33. Passing 2-D Array to Function • Let us now see how to pass an entire array to a function rather than its individual elements. Approach 2 Approach 1 • display(int [][], int, int); /* Function Prototype */ • int main( ) • { • int a[3][4] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1, 6} ; • display ( a, 3, 4 ) ; • return 0; • } • display ( int q[][4], int row, int col ) • { • int i, j ; • for ( i = 0 ; i < row ; i++ ) • { • for ( j = 0 ; j < col ; j++ ) • { • printf ( "%d ", q[i][j]) ; • } • printf ( "\n" ) ; • } • } • display(int *, int, int); /* Function Prototype */ • int main( ) • { • int a[3][4] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1, 6} ; • display ( a, 3, 4 ) ; • return 0; • } • display ( int *q, int row, int col ) • { • int i, j ; • for ( i = 0 ; i < row ; i++ ) • { • for ( j = 0 ; j < col ; j++ ) • { • printf ( "%d ", * ( q + i * col + j )) ; • } • printf ( "\n" ) ; • } • } School of Computer Engineering

  34. Thank You School of Computer Engineering

  35. Home Work (HW) • Write a function power ( a, b ) to calculate the value of a raised to b. • Any year is entered through the keyboard. Write a function to determine whether the year is a leap year or not. • A positive integer is entered through the keyboard. Write a function to obtain the prime factors of this number. For example, prime factors of 24 are 2, 2, 2 and 3, whereas prime factors of 35 are 5 and 7. • Write a function which receives a float and an int from main( ), finds the product of these two and returns the product which is printed through main( ). • Write a function that receives 5 integers and returns the sum, average and standard deviation of these numbers. Call this function from main( ) and print the results in main( ). • Write a function that receives marks received by a student in 3 subjects and returns the average and percentage of these marks. Call this function from main( ) and print the results in main( ). School of Computer Engineering

  36. Home Work (HW) • A 5-digit positive integer is entered through the keyboard, write a function to calculate sum of digits of the 5-digit number: • Without using recursion • Using recursion • Write a recursive function to obtain the first 25 numbers of a Fibonacci sequence. In a Fibonacci sequence the sum of two successive terms gives the third term. Following are the first few terms of the Fibonacci sequence: • 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89... • Write a recursive function to print n-1, n-2, n-3, ….. 0 where n is the input to be supplied by user • Write a recursive function to print 0, n-3, n-2, n-1 where n is the input to be supplied by user • Write a function prime that returns 1 if its argument is a prime number and returns 0 otherwise • Use recursive function to evaluate f(x) = x + x3/3! + x5/5! + …….. + xn/n! where n is the input to be supplied by user School of Computer Engineering

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