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Issues in the Pass by Value

Explore the drawbacks of using pass by value in C functions, including the inability to propagate changes back to the caller and the inefficiency caused by copying large amounts of data. Understand scenarios where pass by value leads to performance issues and why pass by reference or pointers are better alternatives for sharing memory efficiently between functions.

Introduction

Pass by value is neat and easy! It does the job perfectly if we need to pass some information for the called function to read.

Pass by value works by creating copies of the arguments ...