After I posted my question I wondered if this is more of a compiler question
than a Palm OS question. Further checking in a third C book explained
things very clearly. It said that older versions of C required you to pass
a pointer to a structure. Newer versions of C will let you pass an instance.
I got my code working now, so the impetus for resolving my original question
has diminished.
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> >One says I can pass an instance of a structure, the other says I
> >can't and I should pass a pointer instead.
>
> This is not my strong suit, so caveat emptor. As far as I know, you _can_
> pass a structure, but I believe it gets put on the stack. If it's other
> than tiny, you're courting stack overflow disaster, somehow, somewhere.
>
> >What rule does Palm OS apply with regard to passing structures in
> functions?
>
> None as far as I know, at least hadr and fast, but generally, the Palm OS
> functions look for pointers to structures.
>
> Regards,
> Steve Mann
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