Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!hwcs!zen!frank
From: frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: `interesting' program
Summary: Hmmm
Message-ID: <1639@zen.co.uk>
Date: 10 Jul 89 18:52:08 GMT
References: <2833@solo8.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales)
Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England
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In article <2833@solo8.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:
[program deleted]
>I say: zork() is a constant of type struct foo, so you cannot take its
>address and it isn't an lvalue.
>SE says: zork() is the name of a struct foo, so you CAN take its address.

IMHO, zork() is a constant too, and hence not an lvalue.  Both the
HP-PA cc (3.01) and its xdb agree, and although I would be the last
person to advocate using a compiler to confirm the language definition,
I trust this one more than most.  Maybe SE is used to C on some lazy
or old-fashioned machine (e.g., a Sun386i running 4.0.1 SunOS, which
allows both this().that and (&these())->those, producing equivalent code).
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