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From: Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org
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Subject: Re: Regarding assignment to struct
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 07:16:24 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 05 May 2025 13:53:10 -0700
Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wibbled:
>Muttley@dastardlyhq.com writes:
>[...]
>> 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. 
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>Yes, but that's not necessarily useful.  An array that's a member

Depends what you're doing. Passing an array in a structure will copy the array 
saving you having to do it yourself if you don't want to work on the original
version. Obviously that doesn't happen if you just pass a pointer.