Re: Regarding assignment to struct

On Fri, 2 May 2025 18:34:52 -0000 (UTC), Lew Pitcher
<lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> 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 have a project in which these capabilities might come in handy; has
anyone had experience with assigning to structures, passing them as
arguments to functions, and/or having a function return a structure?
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Would code like
 struct ab {
   int a;
   char *b;
 } result, function(void);
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 if ((result = function()).a == 10) puts(result.b);
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be understandable, or even legal?

Wouldn't it be quicker and easier to write a simple program to test
this rather than wait for someone to compose a response?  You already
have 90% of the code written.

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