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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Regarding assignment to struct
Date: Sat, 3 May 2025 22:47:25 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 3 May 2025 01:14:46 -0700, Andrey Tarasevich wrote:

> 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.

There is a caveat, to do with alignment padding: will this always have a 
defined value?