On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 12:24 PM, Matthew Hagerty wrote:
Justin,
Yes, after reading your post, I found this:
-- Structure Assignments
ANSI C compilers allow the information in one structure to be assigned to
another structure, as in:
binfo=addr_info; --
I never knew that.
Another day, another factoid. :-}
I wonder why that functionality is done for structs,
but not extended to arrays as well? Why make exceptions for structs like
that?
I'll guess that this isn't done because you never know exactly what the array bounds are (C doesn't provide run-time type checking).
Cheers,
Justin
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