Questions about functions that return pointers

I'm trying to understand some of the distribution code

typedef struct person  {      struct person *parents[2];      char alleles[2];  }  person;    person *create_family(int generations);    int main(void)  {      person *p = create_family(GENERATIONS);  }    

Why do we have to put the star operator inside of our prototype. Is it always necessary to include the star operator inside of prototypes?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66511533/questions-about-functions-that-return-pointers March 07, 2021 at 06:56AM