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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> writes:

> Why can't you do dest=src? Assignment of struct to struct has been a part
> of C since earliest times.

It's not a struct, it's an array (of one element of struct type).  You
can't assign arrays.

Andreas.

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