C Program to Return Pointer from Function

Write a C program return pointer from function.

• Two integers num1 and num2 are declared and initialized with values.
• The function getMax is called with the addresses of num1 and num2.
• getMax returns a pointer to the larger value by dereferencing and comparing the values.
• The returned pointer is used to print the larger number using *maxPtr.

#include <stdio.h>

// Function that returns a pointer to the larger of two numbers
int* getMax(int *a, int *b) {
    if (*a > *b)
        return a;
    else
        return b;
}

int main() {
    int num1 = 25, num2 = 40;
    int *maxPtr;

    maxPtr = getMax(&num1, &num2);

    printf("The larger number is: %d\n", *maxPtr);

    return 0;
}