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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: To curse or not to curse
Message-ID: <1853@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 28 Jun 89 18:05:57 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >  Wouldn't this work just as well:
 >
 >#ifdef STRUCTURE_ASST
 >	t = o;
 >#else
 >	(void) memcpy((char *) &t, (char *) &o, sizeof(t));
 >#endif

Not if your implementation doesn't have "memcpy", which was added to
AT&T's UNIX C library *after* they added structure assignment to their
compiler....