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From: "Jason Pyeron" <jpyeron@pdinc.us>
To: "'Junio C Hamano'" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"'brian m. carlson'" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Conventions on struct copying?
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 13:22:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A7F0CEE2DEC4F1B825568DB8358D397@black> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqvbrwhlki.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Junio C Hamano
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 13:11
> 
> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
> 
> > I don't know of any place we explicitly copy structs like
> > this,...
> 
> which should be a reason enough.  The first concrete guideline is
> "just imitate the existing code".
> 
> > but I don't know of any prohibition against it, either.
> 
> So now you know ;-).

To expand, on that do not trust the compiler to do deep copies.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2302351/assign-one-struct-to-another-in-c

Hit #1 on https://www.google.com/search?q=c+assignment+of+struct

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-19 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-18 23:31 Conventions on struct copying? brian m. carlson
2014-06-19 17:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-19 17:22   ` Jason Pyeron [this message]
2014-06-20  1:26     ` brian m. carlson

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