Structures

[Karl Heuer]

In article <1990Mar2.171407.1194 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <14302 at reed.UUCP> minar at reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar) writes:
>>Why does Turbo C have an <optional> warning "Warning: structure passed by
>>value" if it is legal TC 2.0 code?  Because it is potentially non-portable?
>
>It's standard behavior for modern compilers; the warning is probably
>because it's not K&R1 conformant.

I think it's more likely that the warning exists simply to catch a common
mistake.  How often do you actually pass a struct by value on purpose,
compared to the number of times you accidentally forget to enreference it?

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