Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:19:20 -0700 From: "Justin C. Walker" <justin@mac.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can a pass-by-reference var be assigned to a local var? Message-ID: <768FECB4-ACCA-11D7-A6BB-00306544D642@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <1843.216.120.158.65.1057173888.squirrel@www.mundomateo.com>
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On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 12:24 PM, Matthew Hagerty wrote: > Justin, > > Yes, after reading your post, I found this: > > -- > Structure Assignments > > ANSI C compilers allow the information in one structure to be assigned > to > another structure, as in: > > binfo=addr_info; > -- > > I never knew that. Another day, another factoid. :-} > I wonder why that functionality is done for structs, > but not extended to arrays as well? Why make exceptions for structs > like > that? I'll guess that this isn't done because you never know exactly what the array bounds are (C doesn't provide run-time type checking). Cheers, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | If you're not confused, | You're not paying attention *--------------------------------------*-------------------------------*
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