Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: struct assignment question
Message-ID: <1990Mar15.165716.28260@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <31530005@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM>
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 90 16:57:16 GMT

In article <31530005@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM> brianh@hpcvia.CV.HP.COM (brian_helterline) writes:
>Can you assign a struct like any other data type?

Yes.  This has been possible since the V7 C compiler, circa 1979.
Unfortunately K&R1 slightly predated this feature, so some compilers
implemented based on the book don't do it.  There is no longer any
excuse for this.
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