c - Dereferencing a function returning a pointer to a structure in C

Question

I've recently come across the following behaviour in C code for the first time:

struct tm brokenDownTime = *gmtime( &myTime );

gmtime returns a pointer to a tm structure and I can see that it's being dereferenced, am I right in assuming that the * is causing the structure to be copied?

Many thanks

Answer 1

几乎正确，尊重本身不会导致复制，但分配会：所有结构元素都是浅复制的。