Re: Joint Strike Fighter

["David Thompson" <david.thompson1@worldnet.att.net>]

Rex Reges <Dogbert.EggsAndSpamWithoutTheSpam@reges.org> wrote :
>
>
> Ian Wild wrote:
...
> > AFAIK structure assignment was added to C sometime in the
> > late seventies.  You really ought to upgrade your compiler.
>
> Hmmm, I must have missed that in my ANSI C manual. A function
> can return a structure, but I must have been using strmov and
> memmov for no good reason, eh?  It's good to hear.
>
There is no strmov, and the str* C standard library routines
are for strings (in C, consecutive memory bytes until a null
character = code 0) and not appropriate for structs -- except
the trivial case of a struct containing only a character array
used as a string, and even then it would be better to apply
the str* routines to the char array member not the struct.

memcpy would be the normal untyped way of copying
(assigning) any data type.  memmove (with an e) is needed
only if the source and target are or may be overlapped,
which cannot normally occur for a struct type; the usual
case is shifting text or arbitrary data around within a buffer.

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