Re: Copying a struct to a larger struct?

"hermes_917@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:
>
> I want to use memcpy to copy the contents of one struct to another
> which is a superset of the original struct (the second struct has
> extra members at the end). I wrote a small program to test this,
> and it seems to work fine, but are there any cases where doing
> something like this could cause any problems?

Why do snaky things in the first place? Just write down what you
want:

struct smaller {
....
} smallguy;

struct bigger {
struct smaller small;
....
} bigguy;

....

bigguy.small = smallguy;

and I find it hard to imagine what could go wrong.

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