In embedded domain, Copying of structure is why avoided in c programming?

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Generally  In embedded software domain for copying structure of same type people dont prefer to use direct assignment and do that by memcpy function or by doing assignment of each element of structure.

Look at Example

struct student {
int roll_no;
int age;
};

struct student exmple1 = {32,15};
struct student exmple2;

for copying exmple1 into exmple2.. instead of writing direct

exmple2=exmple1;

people like to use

memcpy(exmple2,exmple1,sizeof(struct student));

or

exmple2.roll_no=exmple1.roll_no;
exmple2.age=exmple1.age;

Why?

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