> deep cloning of data with simple assignment a = b; > deep equality checks bool are_equal_by_value = memcmp(a, b, sizeof(some_struct_t)); Errr, wat? We see

> deep cloning of data with simple assignment a = b; > deep equality checks bool are_equal_by_value = memcmp(a, b, sizeof(some_struct_t)); Errr, wat? We seem to have very different understandings of "deep" in this context. Neither of the above are "deep" in the sense that pointers within the struct will not be followed with their referenced data copied/compared. These are shallow operations.