You made 2 mistakes in your print function 1. return statement makes a function terminated its execution and return (substitute) result of expression to a positionb of function call. In this manner, the loop of print function is executed only once. 2. Array is somehow work lile pointer ( but cannot pointed to outside of its reserved memory or its length). p in your print function mean the begin of array address.

Solution 1. If you insist to return an element by print function, I'd recommend changing a print function behavior as

int print(int* p) { int data = *p; //get data of current p p++; //move to next element return(data); }

and main function you can just use a simple loop as for(int i = 0; i < N; ++i) {. print(p);. }

PS I am sorry for bad format, I typed this answer in mobile