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Return to GATE2013 q42.

What is the return value of f(p,p), if the value of p is initialized to 5 before the call? Note that the first parameter is passed by reference, whereas the second parameter is passed by value.

<syntaxhighlight lang="c">

int f (int &x, int c) {

c = c - 1; 
if (c==0) return 1; 
x = x + 1; 
return f(x,c) * x; 

} </syntaxhighlight >

(A) 3024

(B) 6561

(C) 55440

(D) 161051

Solution[edit]

In GATE 2013 marks were given to all as the same code in C/C++ produces undefined behavior. This is because * is not a sequence point. The correct code must replace

return f(x,c) * x; 

with

res = f(x,c);
return res * x;

In this code, there will be 4 recursive calls with parameters (6,4), (7,3), (8,2) and (9,1). The last call returns 1. But, because of pass by reference, in all the previous functions, x is now 9. Hence, the value returned by f(p,p) will be 9 * 9 * 9 * 9 * 1 = 6561.




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