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00:01 Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Function calls in C and C++
00:07 In this tutorial we will learn about type of function calls namely
00:13 call by value.
00:14 call by reference.
00:16 We will do this through an example.
00:19 To record this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu Operating system version 11.10
00:26 gcc and g++ Compiler version 4.6.1
00:31 Let us start with the introduction to functions call by value
00:35 It is a method of passing arguments to the function.
00:40 When we pass a variable by value it makes a copy of the variable.
00:45 Before passing to the function.
00:48 Changes made to the arguments inside the function will remain in the function.
00:54 It will not be affected outside the function.
00:58 Let us see a program on function call by value.
01:02 I have already typed the program on the editor. I will just open it.
01:08 Please note our filename is callbyval.c.
01:13 In this program we will calculate the cube of a number. Let me explain the code now.
01:19 This is our header file
01:21 Here we have function cube having an argument as int x.
01:27 In this function we calculate the cube of x and return the value of x.
01:33 This is our main function.
01:36 Here we give the value of n as 8. n is an integer variable
01:43 Then we call the function cube.
01:45 And print the value of n and the cube of n.
01:49 And this is our return statement.
01:52 Now let us execute the program.
01:54 open the terminal window by pressing Ctrl, Alt and T keys simultaneously on your keyboard.
02:02 To compile , type gcc space callbyval.c space hyphen o space val. Press Enter
02:12 Now type ./val (dot slash val).Press Enter
02:16 The output is displayed as Cube of 8 is 512.
02:23 Now we will see function call by reference.
02:26 Let us go back to our slides.
02:29 It is another method of passing arguments to the function.
02:33 This method copies the address of the argument instead of the value.
02:39 Changes made to the arguments inside a function can affect them outside.
02:45 In this we need to declare the arguments as pointer type.
02:50 Let us see an example on function call by reference.
02:54 Note that our filename is callbyref.c
02:59 This is our header file as stdio.h
03:03 Then we have function swap
03:06 This function will exchange the values of the variables.
03:10 Value of a will be stored in value of b and vice-versa.
03:15 You can see that the arguments passed in the function are pointer type.
03:21 Here we have declared an integer variable t.
03:25 First value of a is stored in t.
03:28 Then value of b is stored in a.
03:32 And then value of t is stored in b
03:37 Like this the values are exchanged.
03:40 This is our main function.
03:42 Here we have declared two integer variables as i and j .
03:49 Then we take the values of i and j as user inputs.
03:53 Ampersand i and Ampersand j will give the memory address of i and j.
03:59 First we print the values before swapping.
04:04 Then we call the function swap
04:06 And then we print the values after swapping.
04:10 And this is our return statement.
04:13 Now let us execute the program
04:16 Switch back to our terminal
04:19 To compile type gcc space callbyref dot c space hyphen o space ref. Press Enter
04:29 Now type dot slash ref. Press Enter
04:33 We see, enter the values I will enter as 6 and 4
04:40 The output is displayed as,before swapping 6 and 4
04:44 After swapping 4 and 6
04:48 Now let us see how to execute the same program in C++
04:53 I have the code, lets go through it.
04:57 This is the second program function callbyreference .
05:01 Note that our filename is callbyref.cpp
05:06 Let us go through the code
05:08 This is our header file as iostream
05:12 Here we are using the std namespace
05:16 The function declaration is same in C++.
05:19 In this we pass the arguments as ampersand x and ampersand y.
05:25 This will give the memory address of x and y.
05:29 Then we swap the values.
05:32 Rest of the code is similar to our C code.
05:36 The printf statement is replaced by cout and the scanf statement is replaced by cin
05:44 Now let us execute the program. Come back to our terminal
05:48 To compile type; g++ space callbyref.cpp space hyphen o space ref1, press Enter
06:00 Now Type dot slash ref1, Press Enter
06:05 Here it is displayed as:
06:07 Enter values of a and b
06:10 I will enter as 4 and 3
06:13 The output is displayed
06:15 Before swapping a and b 4 and 3
06:19 After swapping a and b 3 and 4
06:23 This brings us to the end of this tutorial.
06:26 Let us go back to our slides.
06:30 Let us summarize, In this tutorial we learn't:
06:32 Function call by value.
06:34 And Function call by reference.
06:37 As an assignment
06:38 Write a similar program to calculate the cube of a number.
06:42 Using call by value in C++.
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