Making a deep copy of a struct…making a shallow copy of a struct

Question

There are questions LIKE this one, but they are not similar enough to my specific question FOR ME to pick up on.

My question is about how to make a deep copy of a struct

Answer 1

Instead of thinking about it as a copy, why don't you create a new struct but with the same parameters as the one you want to duplicate? It is a subtle difference but, you have the code already:

Student *s2 = create_Student("Leeroy","Jenkins",50,1337);
Student *wiper = create_Student(s2->first_name, s2->last_name, 
                                               s2->grade, s2->id);

the wiper struct has a clone of s2.

To make a shallow copy, do as you are doing with s1 and s2 (the memcpy), or simply:

s2 = malloc(sizeof(Student));
*s2 = *s1