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Call by Value

The document explains two methods of function calling in C: call by value and call by reference. In call by value, the original values of variables remain unchanged as only copies are passed to the function, while in call by reference, the addresses of the variables are passed, allowing the original values to be altered. Example code snippets for both methods are provided to illustrate their differences.

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Call by Value

The document explains two methods of function calling in C: call by value and call by reference. In call by value, the original values of variables remain unchanged as only copies are passed to the function, while in call by reference, the addresses of the variables are passed, allowing the original values to be altered. Example code snippets for both methods are provided to illustrate their differences.

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Function calling methods:

1. Call by value:

In case of call by value method we pass the value of variables inside a function during
invoking it.Here original value of the variables are not altered.All changes are performed
with dummy arguments.

#include<stdio.h>

#include<string.h>

void swap(int x, int y);

int main()

{int a,b;

printf("enter two numbers");

scanf("%d%d",&a,&b);

swap(a,b);

printf("\n%d%d",a,b);

return 0;

void swap(int x, int y)

int z;

z=x;

x=y;

y=z;

printf("\n%d%d",x,y);

2 Call by reference:

In case of call by reference method we pass the address of variables inside a function during
invoking it.Here original value of the variables are altered.

#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h>

void swap(int *x, int *y);

int main()

{int a,b;

printf("enter two numbers");

scanf("%d%d",&a,&b);

swap(&a,&b);

printf("\n%d%d",a,b);

return 0;

void swap(int *x, int *y)

int z;

z=*x;

*x=*y;

*y=z;

printf("\n%d%d",*x,*y);

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