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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Nested Comments in C -- A recent experience
Message-ID: <2381@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 90 21:19:22 GMT
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Reply-To: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <9130008@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM> gary@hpavla.AVO.HP.COM (Gary Jackoway) writes:
<<  (void) memcpy(/*targ*/ (void *) &x, /*src*/ (void *) &y, sizeof(y));
<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));

It's more readable if you eliminate the redundant clutter:
	memcpy(&x,&y,sizeof(y));	/* Copy y into x	*/