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- From: scjones@thor.sdrc.com (Larry Jones)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: How is struct assignment defined (idle query)?
- Message-ID: <2000@sdrc.COM>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 20:13:58 GMT
- References: <715547606snx@grendel.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <715547606snx@grendel.demon.co.uk>, jes@grendel.demon.co.uk (Jim Segrave) writes:
- > Does ANSI say that structure assignment is done by member-wise copy or
- > by bit-wise copying?
-
- No. ;-)
- The details are left unspecified -- member-wise copy is all that's
- required but bit-wise copy is acceptable and is undoubtedly the
- most common implementation (with the possible exception of not
- copying trailing padding).
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