From: Wei Jen Yeh
Subject: recursive copier for structs
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1992 04:11:44 +0000
Message-ID: <18156@ector.cs.purdue.edu>

Hello,
  I wonder if it's possible to write a portable universal recursive copier
for structs? (vs. the default one-level copier).

Thanks.

Wei Jen Yeh                      ···@cs.purdue.edu
                                 Department of Computer Science
                                 Purdue University
                                 West Lafayette, Indiana

From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: recursive copier for structs
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1992 19:11:15 +0000
Message-ID: <kshpqjINN4r@early-bird.think.com>

In article <·····@ector.cs.purdue.edu> ···@cs.purdue.EDU (Wei Jen Yeh) writes:
>Hello,
>  I wonder if it's possible to write a portable universal recursive copier
>for structs? (vs. the default one-level copier).

No, since there's no portable way to get the slots of a structure if you
don't know the names of the accessors.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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