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  15 <H2>Functions</H2>
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  17 <p>Functions can't return arrays,
  18 and it's tricky to write a function as if it returns an array
  19 (perhaps by simulating the array with a pointer)
  20 because you have to be careful about allocating the memory that
  21 the returned pointer points to.
  22 </p><p>The functions we've written have all accepted a well-defined,
  23 fixed number of arguments.
  24 <TT>printf</TT> accepts a variable number of arguments
  25 (depending on how many <TT>%</TT> signs there are
  26 in the format string)
  27 but we haven't seen how to declare and write functions that do this.
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