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From: avery@netcom.COM (Avery Colter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Is simple assignment allowed with structs
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.095803.11624@netcom.COM>
Date: 18 Apr 91 09:58:03 GMT
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And so the mindless philosopher asks, "Yes, but WHY was it decided that
simple struct assignment had universal semantics?"

I suggest it was for the reason I stated, that the memory offsets are the
same for all variables of the same type of struct.

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