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From: demon@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: ANSI C questions (parameters, structure assignment)
Message-ID: <1081.26d26274@desire.wright.edu>
Date: 22 Aug 90 15:46:12 GMT
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	1)	In standard C, when you pass a structure bigger than four
longwords, is the structure passed as a value parameter, or just a pointer to
the structure (thus making it a var parameter)?

	2)	Are structure assignments allowed only for initializations
or can I do:

struct_thing = other_struct_thing;
struct_thing -= still_more_struct;
struct_thing *= even_more_struct;

etc...

	I thought I knew the answer to there but VAX C (I know it's not 100%
ansi) barfs on question #2 type statements of the  -= += etc. kind.

	Thanx,

Brett
demon@wsu.bitnet
bkottmann@falcon.aamrl.wpafb.af.mil