Because the compiler can check types with a struct copy and memcpy() cannot.

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diff --git a/apps/confbridge/conf_config_parser.c b/apps/confbridge/conf_config_parser.c
index dfedffe978f507134efbc03f094c66d0e2bdfa11..c915b184c2624c900db19c358841070d37a805dd 100644 (file)
--- a/apps/confbridge/conf_config_parser.c
+++ b/apps/confbridge/conf_config_parser.c
@@ -1355,7 +1355,7 @@ error:
 
 static void conf_user_profile_copy(struct user_profile *dst, struct user_profile *src)
 {
-       memcpy(dst, src, sizeof(*dst));
+       *dst = *src;
 }
 
 const struct user_profile *conf_find_user_profile(struct ast_channel *chan, const char *user_profile_name, struct user_profile *result)