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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portability of passing/operating on structures...
Message-ID: <8308@alice.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 88 01:10:05 GMT
References: <8810111934.AA21941@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner NJ
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In article <8810111934.AA21941@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU>, U23405@UICVM.Berkeley.EDU (Michael J. Steiner) writes:
> Is it considered portable to do the following things with
> structures or unions?
>     -pass them (by value) to functions
Yes.

>     -have functions which return them
Yes.

>     -assign them (=)
Yes.

>     -test them (structures only) for equality with ==
No.

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				--Andrew Koenig
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