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Message: [QUOTE="Dan Pop, post: 1683340"] I do: one is a clean design, the other is a quick and dirty hack. Who said it's safer? I was NOT talking about *debugging* code, I was talking about reading or maintaining code. If the code is known not to behave as intended, nothing can be assumed to be correct. And I was, obviously, not talking about trivial cases, as the ones shown by you. Checking the definition is necessary only if you want to know what exactly gets stored in the array. But it is a safe bet that the original contents will not survive the call. Then, feel free to use the many pointers solution, any time you need to return multiple values from a function. Hopefully, I won't have to maintain your code. Dan [/QUOTE]