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
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