Re: How is struct assignment defined (idle query)?

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From: Karl Heuer
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1992 20:45

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In article <715547606snx@grendel.demon.co.uk> jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave) writes:
>Does ANSI say that structure assignment is done by member-wise copy or
>by bit-wise copying?

It's unspecified.  Either approach may be used by a conforming implementation;
a user cannot make any valid assumptions about the contents of "holes" after a
struct copy.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.isc.com or uunet!ima!karl), The Walking Lint

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