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From: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A bad design decision early on in ANSI C.
Message-ID: <3893@uw-june.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 87 06:40:54 GMT
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Reply-To: pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel)
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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[Structure assignment passing]

I vote for keeping it.  I have had to suffer through a C compiler that
didn't do this when I *wanted* to pass whole structures on the stack.

There are also a number of compilers (such as B*rkeley Pascal) that pass
"by value" arguments by value.  To maintain compatability with them it is
necessary to have some mechanism for pushing blocks of things on the stack
in the function call list.

	;-D on  ("noalias considered sailaon")  Pardo