define a function returning struct pointer

Question

Please bear with me, i m from other language and newbie to c and learning it from http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/learn-c-the-hard-way.html

struct Person {         


        

Answer 1

Structs are not pointers (or references) by default in C/C++, as they are for example in Java. Struct Person Function() would therefor return struct itself (by value, making a copy) not a pointer.

You often don't want to create copies of objects (shallow copies by default, or copies created using copy constructors) as this can get pretty time consuming soon.