Portability of passing/operating on structures...

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to mh at wlbr.EATON.COM (Mike Hoegeman):
>I've worked on alot of machines where you cannot do ANY [structures in
>assignment, as parameters and as function return values].
>Maybe that's not "right". Maybe one should boycott such compilers. Any
>way you look at it though it's still not portable.

This is a personal decision.  Do you pander to every broken compiler?  Or
do you concentrate on making the best code that will be accepted by any
correct compiler?

To each his own.

As for my opinion:  If your compiler's broken, take it up with your vendor.
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