Re: Regarding assignment to struct

On 05/05/2025 10:50, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com wrote:

On Sat, 3 May 2025 11:46:30 +0200
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> gabbled:

On 02/05/2025 20:34, Lew Pitcher wrote:

Back in the days of K&R, Kernighan and Ritchie published an addendum
to the "C Reference Manual" titled "Recent Changes to C" (November 1978)
in which they detailed some differences in the C language post "The
C Programming Language".
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The first difference they noted was that
   "Structures may be assigned, passed as arguments to functions, and
    returned by functions."
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 From what I can see of the ISO C standards, the current C language
has kept these these features. However, I don't see many C projects
using them.

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I use these features regularly.  I have no problem passing structs around if that is the convenient way to structure the code.

 If you twant o pass an actual array to a function instead of a pointer to it,
embedding it in a structure is the only way to do it.

Yes.
(Well, you could embed it in a union if you prefer, but a struct seems more likely.)