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From: gary@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM (Gary Jackoway)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Nested Comments in C -- A recent experience
Message-ID: <9130008@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Mar 90 13:19:13 GMT
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>  (void) memcpy(/*targ*/ (void *) &x, /*src*/ (void *) &y, sizeof(y));

Aid.
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Can anyone actual understand this line?  I find imbedded comments
like this a nuisance.  Wouldn't

//	           target:      source:
    (void) memcpy((void *) &x, (void *) &y, sizeof(y));

be more readable?

Or maybe:

/*  Copy y into x	*/
    (void) memcpy((void *) &x, (void *) &y, sizeof(y));

Just a thought.
Gary Jackoway