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Re: How to quickly compare equality of structs ...
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: How to quickly compare equality of structs ... |
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Mon, 6 May 2019 14:22:37 -0700 |
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On 5/6/19 1:40 PM, Keith David Bershatsky wrote:
> C provides no method for comparing equality of structs
You can compare each member of the struct yourself. Or you can use
memset to clear all the bytes in the struct (including padding bytes)
before initializing the struct members, and then use memcmp on the result.
> Based on my limited experience with hash tables in Lisp, I am unable to
> visualize how I could use such a table in C to do my comparison for each fake
> cursor ....
I'm sure there's a way.