array copy/ref question

Brian Sturk bsturk at comcast.net
Mon Aug 11 18:20:32 PDT 2008


Lars Ivar Igesund Wrote:

> Brian Sturk wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to get a handle on the array assignment, slicing operations and
> > am a little confused.  The last copy gives me an "overlapping array copy".
> >  Both arrays have a length of 4.  Is it that I cannot copy from one
> > dynamic array to another (even if the same size)?
> 
> It means you are trying to copy from the same memory you are copying to -
> your arrays reference the same memory.

Hi there,

Thanks for the clarification, sounds like I need to do a memcpy to do a true copy.

~telengard



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