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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: malloced structure initilization
Message-ID: <9640@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 10 Feb 89 14:09:21 GMT
References: <202@sabin.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <202@sabin.UUCP> bjm@sabin.UUCP (Brendan J. McMahon) writes:
>How do you initialize memory malloced for a structure without using calloc,
>and without initilizing each structure element explicitly?

Copy a preinitialized (static) structure onto the freshly allocated one.
In modern C this can be done with a single assignment expression.