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authorDave Gauer <dave@ratfactor.com>2021-02-08 20:35:28 -0500
committerDave Gauer <dave@ratfactor.com>2021-02-08 20:35:28 -0500
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Added Ex. 38-43 for pointers, updated README
Added topics beyond the language basics from ziglearn.org to the README. That's a lot of exercises. I'd like to keep it under 100, though!
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+//
+// Now let's use pointers to do something we haven't been
+// able to do before: pass a value by reference to a function!
+//
+const std = @import("std");
+
+pub fn main() void {
+ var num: u8 = 1;
+ var more_nums = [_]u8{ 1, 1, 1, 1 };
+
+ // Let's pass a reference to num to our function and print it:
+ makeFive(&num);
+ std.debug.print("num: {}, ", .{num});
+
+
+ // Now something interesting. Let's pass a reference to a
+ // specific array value:
+ makeFive(&more_nums[2]);
+
+ // And print the array:
+ std.debug.print("more_nums: ", .{});
+ for (more_nums) |n| {
+ std.debug.print("{} ", .{n});
+ }
+
+ std.debug.print("\n", .{});
+}
+
+// This function should take a reference to a u8 value and set it
+// to 5.
+fn makeFive(x: *u8) void {
+ ??? = 5; // fix me!
+}