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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix cpufreq_update_policy
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:24:27 -0500
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To: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.de>
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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 05:16 pm, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 05:12:30PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Why not change it to:
> >
> > 	policy = *data;
> >
> > ?
>
> Because I doubt this works for whole structs. Or am I totally wrong
> (again)?
>
> 	Dominik

The assignment does not work only for arrays because really arrays are
constant pointers:
	char a[] == char * const a 

With structures everything is clear, size, etc. I think that K&R did not
support structure assignment but I believe that it appeared at least in
C89.

-- 
Dmitry