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From: jjr@ut-ngp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Copying Structures
Message-ID: <4741@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 21:51:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 20 21:51:17 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Feb-87 16:17:04 EST
Reply-To: jjr@ngp.UUCP (Jeff Rodriguez)
Organization: U. of TX at Austin, Dept. of Elec. Engr.
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Consider
     typedef struct { float foo[100], bar[100]; } mytype;
     mytype x, y;
I have found that
     y = x;
does the same thing as
     for(i = 0; i < 100; i++) 
     { y.foo[i] = x.foo[i]; y.bar[i] = x.bar[i]; }
Is this shortcut portable?  Does the ANSI standard allow it?

                           Jeff Rodriguez
                           jjr@ngp.utexas.edu