From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
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Subject: Re: Beginners Question
Date: 3 Nov 1997 07:41:01 GMT
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Erik Max Francis (max AT alcyone DOT com) writes:
> john kismul wrote:
> 
>> I've allocated some memory with malloc.
>> 
>> How do I transfer data from this memory to somewhere else in memory,
>> such as, someother memory I've allocated or an array.
> 
> Depends on what kind of information is being stored there.
> 
> If it's a fundamental datatype, you can just use assignment.  If it's
> allocated as structures, you can use structure assignment.  If it's a
> NUL-terminated string, you can use strcpy.  If it's an arbitrary block
> of memory, you can use memcpy.

If it's a C++ object that is a model of Assignable, use assigment. Else,
use copy constructor if any, else use sizeof and memcpy.

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