Portability of passing/operating on structures...

[Karl Heuer]

In article <2685 at hound.UUCP> rkl1 at hound.UUCP (K.LAUX) writes:
>[re struct copy]
>	*Why* would you want to do this anyway?  It is far easier to use
>pointers (and much more efficient).

Whether it's easier depends on what you're trying to do.  Whether it's more
efficient depends on what you're doing and on how good the compiler is.
(Quality implementations will return a small struct in the registers, as is
already customary for builtin types.)

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint