Re: Regarding assignment to struct

From	Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Regarding assignment to struct
Date	2025-05-04 06:48 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Andrey Tarasevich <noone@noone.net> writes:

> On Fri 5/2/2025 11:34 AM, 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".
>>
>> The first difference they noted was that
>>    "Structures may be assigned, passed as arguments to functions, and
>>     returned by functions."
>>
>>  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.
>
> Weird.  Virtually every C project relies on assignment of
> structures.  Passing-returning structs by value might be more rare
> (although perfectly valid and often appropriate too), but
> assignment... assignment is used by everyone everywhere without even
> giving it a second thought.
>
> One dark corner this feature has, is that in C (as opposed to C++) the
> result of an assignment operator is an rvalue, which can easily lead
> to some interesting consequences related to structs with arrays
> inside.

I'm curious to know what interesting consequences you mean here.  Do
you mean something other than cases that have undefined behavior?

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Regarding assignment to struct Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2025-05-02 18:34 +0000
  Re: Regarding assignment to struct Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-05-02 13:17 -0700
  Re: Regarding assignment to struct Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@delq.com> - 2025-05-02 13:35 -0700
    That depends... (Was: Regarding assignment to struct) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2025-05-02 20:44 +0000
      Re: That depends... (Was: Regarding assignment to struct) Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2025-05-03 01:13 +0000
        Re: That depends... (Was: Regarding assignment to struct) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-03 02:28 +0000
        Re: That depends... (Was: Regarding assignment to struct) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-03 06:17 +0200
        Re: That depends... (Was: Regarding assignment to struct) Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-05-03 04:31 +0000
          Re: That depends... (Was: Regarding assignment to struct) Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-05-03 05:11 +0000
            Re: That depends... (Was: Regarding assignment to struct) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-05 12:30 +0200
              Re: That depends... (Was: Regarding assignment to struct) Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-05-05 18:47 +0000
          Re: That depends... (Was: Regarding assignment to struct) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-05-04 11:05 -0700
        Re: That depends... (Was: Regarding assignment to struct) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2025-05-03 00:47 -0400
        Re: That depends... (Was: Regarding assignment to struct) Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-05-04 10:59 -0700
          Re: That depends... (Was: Regarding assignment to struct) Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2025-05-04 18:16 +0000
  Re: Regarding assignment to struct antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-05-02 21:35 +0000
    Re: Regarding assignment to struct Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2025-05-03 01:43 +0000
  Re: Regarding assignment to struct Andrey Tarasevich <noone@noone.net> - 2025-05-03 01:14 -0700
    Re: Regarding assignment to struct Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-03 22:46 +0000
      Re: Regarding assignment to struct Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-05-03 17:37 -0700
        Re: Regarding assignment to struct James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2025-05-03 23:38 -0400
          Re: Regarding assignment to struct gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2025-05-04 09:25 +0000
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          Re: Regarding assignment to struct Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-05-04 13:20 -0700
            Re: Regarding assignment to struct scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-05-05 00:41 +0000
              Re: Regarding assignment to struct Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-05-04 18:42 -0700
              Re: Regarding assignment to struct Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-05-05 21:57 -0700
            Re: Regarding assignment to struct James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2025-05-04 21:08 -0400
    Re: Regarding assignment to struct Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-03 22:47 +0000
    Re: Regarding assignment to struct Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-05-03 22:46 +0000
    Re: Regarding assignment to struct Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-05-04 06:48 -0700
      Re: Regarding assignment to struct Andrey Tarasevich <noone@noone.net> - 2025-05-04 22:22 -0700
        Re: Regarding assignment to struct Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-05 11:12 +0300
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              Re: Regarding assignment to struct Andrey Tarasevich <noone@noone.net> - 2025-05-05 08:45 -0700
                Re: Regarding assignment to struct Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2025-05-05 20:20 +0300
                Re: Regarding assignment to struct Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-05-05 22:26 -0700
                Re: Regarding assignment to struct Andrey Tarasevich <noone@noone.net> - 2025-05-29 05:11 -0700
                Re: Regarding assignment to struct Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-05-05 13:27 -0700
                Re: Regarding assignment to struct Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-05-05 17:04 -0700
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                Re: Regarding assignment to struct Andrey Tarasevich <noone@noone.net> - 2025-05-29 05:19 -0700
                Re: Regarding assignment to struct antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-05-06 17:36 +0000
                Re: Regarding assignment to struct David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-05-06 20:46 +0200
                Re: Regarding assignment to struct scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2025-05-06 19:22 +0000
                Re: Regarding assignment to struct David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-05-07 09:37 +0200
                Re: Regarding assignment to struct Andrey Tarasevich <noone@noone.net> - 2025-05-29 05:49 -0700
                Re: Regarding assignment to struct Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-05-06 13:06 -0700
                Re: Regarding assignment to struct Andrey Tarasevich <noone@noone.net> - 2025-05-29 05:21 -0700
                Re: Regarding assignment to struct Andrey Tarasevich <noone@noone.net> - 2025-05-29 05:14 -0700
          Re: Regarding assignment to struct Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-05-05 07:03 -0700
        Re: Regarding assignment to struct Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-05-05 01:26 -0700
          Re: Regarding assignment to struct Andrey Tarasevich <noone@noone.net> - 2025-05-05 10:14 -0700
            Re: Regarding assignment to struct Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-05-08 12:45 -0700
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                Re: Regarding assignment to struct Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2025-05-07 21:17 -0700
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      Re: Regarding assignment to struct Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2025-05-05 13:53 -0700
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        Re: Regarding assignment to struct David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2025-05-06 11:46 +0200
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