Comments on: Nuances in C: Struct Assignment in C http://zacharyc.com/2008/03/13/nuances-in-c-struct-assignment-in-c/ Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:31:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Priyesh Narayanan http://zacharyc.com/2008/03/13/nuances-in-c-struct-assignment-in-c/comment-page-1/#comment-851 Priyesh Narayanan Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:28:21 +0000 http://zacharyc.com/2008/03/13/nuances-in-c-struct-assignment-in-c/#comment-851 Zachary, two things: 1. What you would find more interesting is that even in C++, this program wouldn't necessarily depend on the copy constructor - since you only have primitive types in your struct, any decent compiler would in turn let the built-in structure assignment capability take over, instead of generating a copy constructor. This could be called an optimization I guess, and would be compiler dependent. In fact, I was posting something related on my blog. 2. Your program needs correction. Zachary, two things:
1. What you would find more interesting is that even in C++, this program wouldn’t necessarily depend on the copy constructor – since you only have primitive types in your struct, any decent compiler would in turn let the built-in structure assignment capability take over, instead of generating a copy constructor. This could be called an optimization I guess, and would be compiler dependent. In fact, I was posting something related on my blog.

2. Your program needs correction.

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