In a message dated 10-19-98, James Mckenzie said to Mario Semo about "Need
to copy"

Hi James,

JM>Believe it or not this works:

JM>Void calc_offered_load (EXPT_DESC_PTR expt)
JM>{
JM>EXPT_DESC  ol_ex;

JM>old_ex = ex;

What is 'old_ex'?

What happened to 'expt'?

Where is 'ex' declared and as what?

If that's a typo and you meant

  ol_ex = expt;

then this is semantically incorrect, as you should dereference the pointer.

[I get the impression you typed the code in by hand rather than cut and
pasted it from a text editor displaying your code.]

JM>where
JM>memmove (&ol_ex , expt, sizeof(EXPT_DESC);

JM>does not, as improper values result from some of the internal variables.

JM>and memcpy (....);

JM>results in a SYS1808 when called.

JM>And I'm wondering why.

How about complete code for calc_offered_load? [And its caller.]

First thing is to check that you don't have a declaration of:

      EXPT_DESC  * ol_ex;

The asterisk would change the rules completely.

Regards

Dave

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