From: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: struct...help?
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 19:24:29 -0300
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Erik Max Francis wrote:
> In C you can only do this on _initialization_, not general assignment.
> That is, you can use the structure initialization syntax when the
> structure is defined, but no time after that.
	That is technically true, but there is a way around that.  You can initialize
an unnamed instance of the structure and then copy it to yours:

struct Mine {
 int a,b,c;
 };

Mine a;
a = (Mine){4,2,0};

> Further, the structure initializers must all be constant.
	That is true for ANSI, but not for DJGPP.  You can use variables in DJGPP.

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