From: utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!alex Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: C compiler secrets - (nf) Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.272 Posted: Fri Jul 23 18:27:11 1982 Received: Mon Jul 26 06:41:48 1982 #R:uiucdcs:13700006:uiucdcs:13700007:000:371 uiucdcs!alex Jul 23 17:56:00 1982 The documentation (The C programming language -- Kernighan and Richie) states that structure assignments draw an error message but that it is expected that they will be allowed on later versions. Unix v7 documentation under a "Recent Changes to C" section states that structure assignments (together with other goodies like enumerated types ) are now acceptable in C.