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From: markb@sdcrdcf.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why pass structs? (not struct pointers)
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Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 12:31:05 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  4 12:31:05 1987
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I always thought that it was added so that people who do complex math
would not have do any pointer hacking.  It is a lot nicer to be able to
write:

a = c_add(c_mul(b,c),d);

then

{  struct cmplx t;
   c_mul(&t,&b,&c);
   c_add(&a,&t,&d);
}

Mark Biggar
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