Maybe a dumb question, clone or copy?

[andrewchambers]

I am trying to copy a subvalue out of an rpc params message, and then encode it as a new standalone message (which is then written to disk). What would be the correct way to clone or copy one of my own structs into a new message/segment? Alternatively, is it safe to have a single segment being used by two messages?

[zombiezen]

If you set a pointer field to an object in a different message, the object will be copied automatically into the message. This is perhaps not documented as well as it should be, but the behavior is guaranteed.

[andrewchambers]

Thanks for the explanation, I really appreciate it.