simple structure question

[degamer106]

#include <stdio.h>

struct FUN {
	char x;
	char *y;
	int z[20];
};

int main(void) {

	struct FUN fn1;
	struct FUN fn2;
	struct FUN fn3[10];
	struct FUN fn4[50];

return 0;
}

is an assignment like fn4[23] = fn3[5] invalid?

[WaltP]

#include <stdio.h>

struct FUN {
    char x;
    char *y;
    int z[20];
};

int main(void) {

    struct FUN fn1;
    struct FUN fn2;
    struct FUN fn3[10];
    struct FUN fn4[50];

return 0;
}

is an assignment like fn4[23] = fn3[5] invalid?

What happened when you tried it? ;)

Set up a function to move the parts of FUN from one value to another.

[Salem]

> is an assignment like fn4[23] = fn3[5] invalid?
Well it's fine as far as the syntax is concerned.

However, the pointer inside the structure presents big problems.

fn1.y = malloc( 10 * sizeof *fn1.y );
fn2 = fn1;
free( fn1.y );
// fn2.y is now a dangling pointer.

Structure assignments in C know nothing about the internals of the struct, it's just a handy wrapper around memmove( &fn2, &fn1, sizeof fn2 ); In C++, we would use a proper copy constructor to replicate what the pointer pointed to rather than just making a copy of the pointer.

[himanjim]

structures can be copied directly into each other but copying array as such leads to error. In such cases copy the structures using pointers to the strutures.