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From: jas@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Shankland)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Portability of passing/operating on structures
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Date: 25 Oct 88 16:25:40 GMT
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In article <7356@ihlpl.ATT.COM> knudsen@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Knudsen) writes:
>This is my main objection to structure and array assignment and
>passing.  Aside from being hideously wasteful of time and stack space,
>they permit common typo errors (omission of &) to go undetected.

Nonsense.  Lint your code.

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Jim Shankland
jas@ernie.berkeley.edu

"I've been walking in a river all my life, and now my feet are wet."