memcpy()
memmove()
These can copy or move parts of the memory to another, which structs with
values are easily copyable (copiable?).
Rick
NOTE: Thanks for the long message warning. I only read the first paragraph
and am responding to that.
-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Dughi <dughi@imaxx.net>
To: CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca <CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca>
Date: Saturday, March 27, 1999 2:36 PM
Subject: Cloning structs
>(Note: Rather long, and ends with a request for technical info - may not
>be terribly interesting.)
>
> In truth, this is more about programming in general than directly
>applying to circle, but it's something that I thought about a great deal,
>and would be terribly helpful for building, as well as a myraid of other
>neat things..
>
> Basically, I want to clone a struct. Say I want to make an exact
>copy of something to edit. Currently one would have to make a seperate
>function for each structure type; they'd alloc the space, and copy
>relevant variables, creating each new string/struct within as they go,
>eventually making it all...
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